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See “The Intriguing World of Insects” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/McPBuOIH0Z #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on September 30, 2019.

The first modern day success story of biocontrol was the introduction of the Vedalia beetle, a species of ladybug, from Australia into California in 1888 to control cottony cushion scale, a major insect pest of oranges and other citrus trees. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on September 30, 2019.

People have moved many species around the world to help control pest insects. This practice is called Classical Biological Control, or Biocontrol. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on September 30, 2019.

See “The Intriguing World of Insects” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/McPBuOIH0Z #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on September 19, 2019.

Ever wonder how entomologists preserve insects indefinitely? Many specimens are preserved by simply letting them dry. Though, if insects die in inconvenient position, entomologists use “spreading boards” to hold the wings of insects in place while they dry. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on September 19, 2019.

See “The Intriguing World of Insects” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/McPBuOIH0Z #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on September 06, 2019.

Young grasshoppers and roaches, called nymphs, look like adult grasshoppers and roaches, but without wings. The wings begin to develop on the outside of the body in older nymphs, rather than inside a pupa. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on September 06, 2019.

Roaches, crickets, grasshoppers, and mantids all belong to the superorder Orthopteroidea and share something in common—they do not have a pupal stage like butterflies and beetles. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on September 06, 2019.

See “The Intriguing World of Insects” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/McPBuOIH0Z #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on August 31, 2019.

From 1939 to 1999 the CA Insect Survey generated a large number of specimens which represent the terrestrial arthropod fauna of the state, and the collection has served as a repository for the research collections of students of systematics at UC Berkeley. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on August 31, 2019.

“The Intriguing World of Insects” features over one thousand specimens from the Essig Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. The Essig Museum is home to a collection of over 5,000,000 terrestrial arthropods. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on August 31, 2019.

Extinction is forever, and awareness is our best weapon to combat it. See “The Intriguing World of Insects” on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/McPBuOIH0Z #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on August 21, 2019.