Insect Collection Development and Insect Systematics
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Insects have many important beneficial and detrimental impacts on human activities. The purpose of this project is to learn moreabout insect diversity and to develop specimen collections that provide the permanent verifiable basis for: accurateidentifications of pest and beneficial insects, knowledge of their distributions, investigations of biodiversity, and many otherderived products.