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Live Insect Zoo
Live Insect Zoo
The UMass Live Insect Zoo is maintained by student volunteers from the Fernald Club and collections staff, 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 cockroaches, tarantulas, desert beetles, rhino or stag beetles, mantids, katydids, stick insects, whipspiders, and more!
The Live Insect Zoo display is open to the public on weekdays during normal business hours.
Want to see the live insects up close or handle them? Contact us at fernaldclubumass@gmail.com to set up an introduction to the live insect zoo or a handling session.
Insects in the Hallway
Insects in the Hallway
Located in the second-floor hallway of Fernald Hall, across from the Live Insect Zoo, the Insects in the Hallway display showcases the enormous diversity of insects around the world. A separate display shows a wide range of local Massachusetts species.
The Fernald insect displays were once featured in an article in the Massachusetts Daily Collegian!
The Insects in the Hallway display is open to the public on weekdays during normal business hours.
Insect Museum
Insect Museum
The Insect Museum is UMass Amherst's scientific insect collection, comprising over 100,000 specimens across the insect orders. It also includes other terrestrial arthropods like arachnids, centipedes, millipedes, and terrestiral isopods. 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 oldest known specimen in the collection was collected in 1860!
The Insect Museum was featured in a recent article in UMass Magazine!
The Insect Museum is not open to the public, but tours are available upon request for groups and individuals. 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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