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Organisms

The Museum manages collections and conducts research relating to a variety of terrestrial invertebrates.

  • Bumblebee feeding
    Insects

    Discover more about the insects the Museum's scientists are studying and caring for in our collections.

  • Latrodectus tredecimguttatus
    Arachnida

    Learn more about the many and varied orders of arachnida. 

  • Scutigera coleoptrata
    Myriapoda

    Myriapoda is a sub phylum of arthropods containing both millipedes and centipedes among others.

  • Onychophora
    Onychophora

    Onychophorids are close relatives of the Arthopoda and are commonly known as Velvet worms.

  • Hypsibius dujardini, scanning electron micrograph
    Tardigrada

    Tardigrades are also known as water bears, and they can be found the most extreme environments.