The Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn, will hold a scientific illustration workshop on Saturday, November 21, 10 am to 12 noon. The ...

The word beautiful got thrown around an awful lot one recent morning in The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky. Officials were discussing the fine details of the drawings that were being put up ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of illustrations and black and white photographs of insects that were used for figures and plates in scientific research ...

CINCINNATI -- John James Audubon would be all over the upcoming "Off the Page" art exhibit at the Lloyd Library. It brings together three touchstones of the great 19th-century artist's life: ...

They skitter and scare, bite and sting, but insects also inspire scientists to develop awesome technologies that can help save people and the planet. The nonfiction book Built Like a Bug: How Insects ...

Maria Sibylla Merian’s beautiful and disturbing illustrations, which shaped how we look at the natural world, will be on show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum More than three centuries after she made a ...

UPWARDS of thirty years ago Mrs. Meredith gave the world a volume containing admirable coloured figures of a selection from the many beautiful plants and insects that inhabit her island home, Tasmania ...

To most people, insects conjure images of unease: pests that buzz, bite or crawl into every aspect of our daily lives. Yet, within the walls of Dr. Frederik Nijhout’s, John Franklin Crowell ...