Survey of Insect Collections in the U.S. and Canada

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1	Country	State/Province	Institution	Collection Coden	Type	Current holdings (in thousands of processed specimens)	Curator/Collection Manager	Actively curated? (Y/N)	Digitization effort? (Y/N)	Website	Remarks

2	Canada	AB	University of Alberta		university	1,000	Felix Sperling			http://www.biology.museums.ualberta.ca/en/EHStricklandEntomologicalMuseum.aspx	"Approximately one million specimens are included"
3	Canada	AB	Olds College	OLDS	university	45	Ken Fry	N	N	http://www.oldscollege.ca	dry collection, mostly Lepidoptera, total collection approximately 65,000 specimens
4	USA	AK	University of Alaska, Fairbanks		university	1,000	Derek S. Sikes			http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/ento/	"over 1 million specimens (as of June 2014)"
5	USA	AL	Auburn University Museum of Natural History	AUM	university	100,000	Charles H. Ray/Melissa Callahan	Y	Y	http://aumnh.org	estimated 700,000
6	USA	AL	Alabama Museum of Natural History, University of Alabama		university		G. Milton Ward
7	USA	AR	University of Arkansas		university	750	Jeffrey K. Barnes			http://www.uark.edu/ua/arthmuse/	"estimated 750,000" as of 2003
8	USA	AR	Arkansas State University		university	unknown	Tanja McKay
9	USA	AS	American Samoa Community College		University	2	Mark Schmaedick
10	USA	AZ	University of Arizona		university	2,000	Wendy Moore/Gene Hall			http://www.uainsectcollection.com/	"approximately 2.0 million insect specimens"
11	USA	AZ	Arizona State University (Frank M. Hasbrouck Insect Collection)	ASUT	university	750	Nico Franz/Sangmi Lee			http://taxonbytes.org/asuhic/	"We estimate the current ASUHIC holdings to total nearly"
12	USA	AZ	Northern Arizona University	NAUF	university	260	Neil Cobb			http://nau.edu/Merriam-Powell/Biodiversity-Center/Museum-of-Arthropod-Biodiversity/	"more than 250,000 specimens of insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, and millipedes"
13	USA	AZ	Natural History Institute at Prescott College		University	0.9	Lisa Zander
14	Canada	BC	UBC Spencer Entomologcial Collection	UBCZ	university	650	Karen Needham	Y	Y	http://biodiversity.ubc.ca/entomology	mainly holdings from BC, with many YK and some AK/AB as well
15	Canada	BC	Royal British Columbia Museum		State government	243	Claudia Copley	Y		http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/nh-collections/entomology/
16	USA	CA	California Academy of Sciences	CAS	private	10,000	Norm Penny			http://www.calacademy.org/scientists/entomology-collection	"about"
17	USA	CA	University of California at Davis (Bohart Museum)		university	7,000	Lynn Kimsey/Steve Heydon			http://bohart.ucdavis.edu/	"holdings total more than seven million"
18	USA	CA	Los Angeles County Museum	LACM	county government	5,800	Brian Brown/Weiping Xie			http://www.nhm.org/site/research-collections/entomology	"more than 5.8 million"
19	USA	CA	University of California at Berkeley (Essig Museum)		university	3,500	Kipling Will			http://essig.berkeley.edu/	no recent data, 1986 numbers used
20	USA	CA	California State Collection of Arthropods	CSCA	state government	1,500	Stephen Gaimari/Jackie Kishmirian			https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/ppd/csca.html	"total number of prepared specimens exceeds 1.5 million"
21	USA	CA	Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History	SBMN	private	300	Matthew Gimmel			http://www.sbnature.org/crc/348.html	"over 300,000 specimens"
22	USA	CA	San Diego State University Terrestrial Arthropods Collection		university	50	Marshal Hedin			http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/collections/terrestrialarthropods.htm	"SDSU Terrestrial Arthropods Collection includes an estimated 50,000 specimens"
23	USA	CA	Cal Poly State University	CPUP	university	300	Jenn Yost, Larisa K. Vredevoe
24	USA	CA	University of California, Riverside		university	4,000	Doug Yanega	Y	Y	http://entmuseum.ucr.edu/	database contains approx 475,000 records
25	USA	CA	Insect Collection of the Tulare County Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer		county government	?	Dennis Haines
26	USA	CA	Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER), University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)		university	9,000	Katja Seltmann / Mireia Beas-Moix
27	USA	CA	Fresno County Department of Agriculture	FCDA	County government	100	Gene Hannon	Y	N		Approx. 100,000 pinned or alcohol specimens, mostly central California insects from the Eastern slope of Coast Range Mts., throughout central valley, and up the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mts.
28	USA	CA	San Diego Natural History Museum		private	900	Michael Wall	Y		http://www.sdnhm.org/science/entomology/collections/
29	USA	CA	Gordon Edwards Entomology Museum San Jose State University	SJSU	university	1000	Jeff Honda
30	USA	CO	Colorado State University		university	3,000	Boris Kondratieff			http://bspm.agsci.colostate.edu/01-2/gillette-museum/	"approximately three million specimens"
31	USA	CO	Denver Museum of Nature & Science		private	970	Frank Krell			http://www.dmns.org/science/collections/dmns-zoology-collections/	"796,000 specimens (October 2011)"
32	USA	CO	Denver Botanic Gardens		private	0.302	Rick Levy			http://symbiota4.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=57
33	USA	CO	Fort Lewis College		university	2	Ross A McCauley
34	USA	CO	Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument		state government	10.63	Conni J. O'Connor				an extant insect collection of 630 specimens collected in the early 1980s and a fossil insect collection of approximately 10,000 specimens collected from the Late Eocene Florissant Formation
35	USA	CO	University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Entomology Collection		university	700	Deane Bowers			http://cumuseum.colorado.edu
36	USA	CO	Charles E. Harp collection	CEH	private	22	Chuck Harp	Y	N		17,000 are Noctuoidea each spread and labeled and curated to current checklists, covers Rocky Mtn. region
37	USA	CT	Univ. Connecticutt Army Ant & Guest Collection		university	2,200	Janine Caira/Jane O’Donnell			http://biodiversity.uconn.edu/ant-guests/	2,119,048 ants and "guests." See website for explanation. Is this kept apart from the other insects?
38	USA	CT	Yale University, Peabody Museum of Natural History	YPM	university	1,600	Leonard E. Munstermann/Larry Gall/Ray Pupedis	Y	Y	http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/entomology	estimated 1.6 million specimens; over 300,000 specimens databased, see online holdings at http://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/
39	USA	CT	University of Connecticutt		university	200	Janine Caira/Jane O’Donnell			http://biodiversity.uconn.edu/insects/	"collection numbers over 200,000 specimens"
40	USA	CT	Stamford Museum & Nature Center		private	3	Kirsten R. Brophy	Y	N	http://www.stamfordmuseum.org/	"approximately 3,000 specimens, mostly butterfiles & moths
41	USA	CT	Eric L. Quinter collection	ELQ	private	300	Eric Quinter	Y	N	.
42	USA	DC	National Museum of Natural History		national government	35,000	Floyd Shockley			http://entomology.si.edu/Collections.html	"approximately"
43	USA	DE	University of Delaware		university	350	Charles Bartlett			http://symbiota4.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=69	"approximately 350,000 pinned specimens, plus several thousand specimens in alcohol and a few hundred on slides"
44	USA	FL	McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity	MGCL	private	10,000	Jacqueline Miller			https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/index.php/mcguire/home/	"more than 10 million specimens"
45	USA	FL	Florida State Collection of Arthropods	FSCA	state government	5,436	Michael C. Thomas/Paul Skelley			http://www.fsca-dpi.org/	no recent data, 1986 numbers used
46	USA	FL	University of Central Florida Collection of Arthropods	UCFC	university	510	Sandor Kelly	Y	Y	http://bugcloset.cos.ucf.edu/	"collection is now over 510,000 specimen"
47	USA	FL	Florida A&M University	FAMU	university	unknown	Janice Peters			http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/typelist.php	a minority-serving institution with a large collection of Ephemeroptera (world-wide scale) and a regional collection of aquatic insects (most notably Trichoptera, Plecoptera, and aquatic Diptera)
48	USA	FL	Museum of Science & History		private	.7-1	Lena Hernandez	N	N	http://www.themosh.org	Primarily collected between 1930-1970.
49	USA	FL	Archbold Biological Station	ABS	private	218	Mark Deyrup
50	USA	GA	University of Georgia		university	1,800	Joseph McHugh/Richard Hoebeck			http://www.ugca.uga.edu/index.html	"more than 1,800,000 pinned specimens. In addition the collection houses significant alcohol-preserved and slide-mounted collections"
51	USA	GA	Georgia Southern University		University	500	Lance Durden (curator)/Colleen Evans (collections manager)	Y	Y	http://cosm.georgiasouthern.edu/icps/collections/entomology-collection/	~500,000 pinned specimens, ~20,000 in alcohol; none of this information takes into account the U.S. National Tick Collection, which is also housed at GSU
52	USA	HI	Bernice P. Bishop Museum	BPBM	private	14,000	Neal L. Evenhuis			http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/natsci/ento/ento.html	"over 14 million"
53	USA	HI	University of Hawaii	UHIM	university	250	Daniel Rubinoff	y	y	http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/insectmuseum/	"houses over 250,000 specimens"
54	USA	IA	Iowa State University		university	unknown				not available	no data available
55	USA	IA	Putnam Museum and Science Center		private	unknown	Chris Chandler	N	N		about 6 cases of insects (the majority of which were most likely collected in the late 1800s, early 1900s - including J. D. Putnam's collection of solpugids)
56	USA	IA	Museum of Natural History of the University of Iowa		University	44	Cindy Opitz	Y	Y	www.uiowa.edu/mnh
57	USA	ID	University of Idaho		university	1,000	Luc Leblanc			http://www.uidaho.edu/cals/pses/research-and-extension/entomological-museum	"well over one million mounted specimens"
58	USA	ID	Boise State University	BIDA	university		Ian Robertson
59	USA	ID	Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, College of Idaho		university		William Clark			http://www.collegeofidaho.edu/cultural-institutions/orma-j-smith-museum-natural-history
60	USA	IL	Field Museum of Natural History	FMNH	private	12,000	Crystal Maier			https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/research/area/insects-arachnids-and-myriapods	"more than 12 million specimens"
61	USA	IL	Illinois Natural History Survey	INHS	state government	7,000	Chris Grinter			http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/insect	"ca. 7 million prepared specimens"
62	USA	IL	Western Illinois University		university	unknown	Ken McCravy
63	USA	IL	Chicago Academy of Sciences	CHAS	private	70	Dawn Roberts/Erica Krimmel	Y	N	http://www.naturemuseum.org/	Collection is inventoried and data is being prepared for migration into Acrtos. Curation is being done by collections managers and interns. Minimal specimen imaging has been done. Historic name code is CASM.
64	USA	IL	Illinois State Museum	ISM	State government	55	Everett D. "Tim" Cashatt, Meredith J. Mahoney			http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/zoology/collections.html	over 50,000 insects and spiders
65	USA	IL	International Soybean Arthropod Collection	ISAC	university	300	Ellen Brewer
66	USA	IL	Burpee Museum of Natural History	BURP	private					http://www.burpee.org/collections/
67	USA	IL	Southern Illinois University Insect Collection	SIUC	university	300	J.E. McPherson
68	USA	IN	Purdue Entomological Research Collection, Purdue University	PERC	university	2,000	Jennifer Zaspel/Eugenio Nearns	Y	Y	https://www.entm.purdue.edu/PERC/	"approximately 2 million" "more than 140,000 species"
69	USA	IN	University of Notre Dame Arthropod Collection		university	150	Ron Hellenthal			http://science.nd.edu/about/facilities/jordan/museum-of-biodiversity/
70	USA	IN	Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College		University	40	Heather R.L. Lerner
71	USA	IN	Butler University Insect Collection		University	8
72	USA	KS	University of Kansas (Snow Entomological Research Collection)	SEMC	university	4,700	Linda Trueb (funny, but not true)			http://biodiversity.ku.edu/entomology	"almost 5 million"
73	USA	KS	Kansas State University		university	300	Gregory Zolnerowich			http://entomology.k-state.edu/department-info/facilities/insect-museum/	"estimated to contain approximately 300,000 specimens"
74	USA	KY	University of Kentucky		university	16,167	Eric Chapman			http://sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/sharkeyProjects.html	no data available
75	USA	KY	University of Louisville's Lovell Insect Collection		University	unknown	Carles Covell
76	USA	LA	Louisiana State Arthropod Museum	LSAM	university	1,000	Victoria Moseley Bayless	Y	Y	http://www.lsuinsects.org/about.html	"contains approximately"
77	USA	LA	Vernon Antoine Brou Jr. & Charlotte D. Brou	VAB	Private	400	Vernon Antoine Brou Jr.	Y	N	http://independent.academia.edu/VernonAntoineBrouJr	insects of Louisiana, especially moths, also 10,000 specimens of the moth genus Eudocima of the world.
78	USA	MA	Museum of Comparative Zoology	MCZ	university	7,500	Brian D. Farrell			http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Entomology/holdings.html	"more than seven million"
79	USA	MA	University of Massachusetts		university	unknown				http://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/program/plant-soil-and-insect-sciences	no data available
80	Canada	MB	University of Manitoba		university	2,000	Terry Galloway			http://www.wallisroughley.ca/	"collection contains approximately 2 million specimens, with about 450,000 in specimen drawers and the remainder in the wet collection"
81	USA	MD	University of Maryland		university	unknown				http://entomology.umd.edu/	no data available
82	USA	ME	Maine State Museum		state government	107				http://www.mainestatemuseum.org/collections/whats_new_in_the_collections/significant_insect_collection_donated_by_university_of_maine/	University of Maine collection donated to State Museum in 2012
83	USA	MI	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology	UMMZ	university	4,500	Barry M. OConnor, Lacey L. Knowles/ Mark O'Brien	Y	Y	http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ummz/insects/default.asp	Will be moving to a new building in 2016.
84	USA	MI	Michigan State University	MSUC	university	1,500	Anthony Cognato/Gary Parsons			http://www.arc.ent.msu.edu/	"close to"
85	USA	MI	Northern Michigan University		university	unknown	Mac Strand			not available
86	USA	MI	Eastern Michigan University		university	unknown	Jamin Eisenbach
87	USA	MI	Pierce Cedar Creek Institute		Field Station	unknown	Sara Syswerda	N	N	cedarcreekinstitute.org
88	USA	MI	Univ. of Michigan Biological Station, Douglas Lake (Pellston)	UMBS	university	4	Brian Scholtens
89	USA	MI	University of Michigan Biological Station		university		Brian Scholtens
90	USA	MN	University of Minnesota	UMSP	university	3,877	Robin Thomson	Y	Y	http://insectcollection.umn.edu/	Current holdings include 3,876,729 specimens, representing 51,239 described species (as of December 2015
91	USA	MO	University of Missouri (Enns Entomology Museum)		university	6,000	Robert W. Sites			http://www.museum.insecta.missouri.edu/	"approximately" "donation of 4.5 million aquatic invertebrate specimens from Missouri Department of Conservation"
92	USA	MO	Lincoln University		university	1.5	Jaime C. Piñero
93	USA	MO	University of Central Missouri		university	unknown	Stephen Wilson
94	USA	MS	Missisippi State University	MEM	university	1,000	Richard Brown/Terence L. Schiefer			http://mississippientomologicalmuseum.org.msstate.edu/	"more than 1,000,000 pinned specimens"
95	USA	MS	Ole Miss Insect Collection, University of Mississippi		university		Paul Lago
96	USA	MT	Montana State University	MTEC	university	3,000	Michael Ivie	Y	Y (weak)	http://mtent.org/	no data available
97	USA	NC	North Carolina State University	NCSU	university	1,750	Robert L. Blinn			https://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/museum/index.php	"close to 1,750,000 prepared specimens"
98	USA	NC	Naturalist Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Resources		private	2.5	Greg Skupien			http://naturalsciences.org/
99	USA	ND	North Dakota State University	NDSU	university	1,000				https://www.ndsu.edu/entomology/research/facilities/	"just over a million"
100	USA	NE	University of Nebraska		university	2,000	Brett Ratcliffe/M.J. Paulsen	Y		http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/CollHist.html	"houses approximately"