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Live Insect Zoo
Live Insect Zoo
The UMass Live Insect Zoo is maintained by collections staff and volunteers from the Fernald Club, and is located in the second-floor hallway of Fernald Hall. We keep a variety of live insects and other arthropods in the zoo for educational outreach, and also because they're lots of fun!
Inhabitants of the Insect Zoo typically include creatures such as hissing and discoid cockroaches, tarantulas and other spiders, desert beetles, mantids, whipspiders, millipedes, isopods, and more!
Want to handle the live insects? Contact us at fernaldclubumass@gmail.com to set up an insect-handling session.
Insects in the Hallway
Insects in the Hallway
Located in the second-floor hallway of Fernald Hall, the Insects in the Hallway display showcases the enormous diversity of insects to the public. A separate display shows a wide range of locally-collected Massachusetts species.
The Fernald hallway insect displays were featured in an article in the Massachusetts Daily Collegian!
Insect Museum
Insect Museum
The Insect Museum is UMass Amherst's scientific insect collection, comprising over 100,000 specimens across many insect orders. It includes both local insects from the Amherst area and exotic species from around the world, and features many historic specimens from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The Insect Museum was featured in a recent article in UMass Magazine!
Contact us at fernaldclubumass@gmail.com if you are interested in an educational viewing of the collection or want to learn more about it.
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