From Science to Status Symbols: Why Antique Insect Collections Can Sell for $20,000

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...
AZ Animals

Orchid Mantis: The Expensive Exotic Insect You Thought Was a Flower

They are exceptional but fragile. Yet the orchid mantis is one of the most expensive exotic pet insects, and people happily ...
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Colorado museum showcases 7,000 exotic bugs for 62nd year

COLORADO SPRINGS — Now open for its 62nd year of operations, the John May Museum Center in El Paso county showcases more than 7,000 exotic insects from all over the world in what is reportedly the ...
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How a Colorado Family Built a Home for the World's Weirdest, Most Beautiful Bugs

Driving along a nondescript section of Highway 115 a few miles south of Colorado Springs, it’s hard not to swerve at the sight of a gigantic Hercules beetle, its horns as tall as a house, standing ...