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Read more about Special Event: Spook-Tour Collection Tours

On October 27 and 29, 2025, ASU Biocollections hosted a special Spook-Tober Tour event, inviting visitors to “creep, crawl, or fly” in for a frightfully delightful, Halloween-themed, behind-the-scenes experience of the entomology, vertebrate, and lichen collections.

Read more about ASU Insect Collection Hosted APHIS Grasshopper ID Workshop

Location: Arizona State University, ASU Biocollections (734 W. Alameda Dr., Tempe, AZ)

On March 5-6, 2025, Arizona State University Insect Collection hosted an exclusive workshop, welcoming over 20 attendees from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Held at ASU's Biocollections facility, this event was a collaborative effort with Dr. Arianne Cease's lab at ASU, the USDA-APHIS-Phoenix Lab, and the ASU Insect Collections.

Read more about News Alert: Flooding in the ASU Biocollections

Last Thursday-Friday night, November 16-15^th 2024 a large part of the ASU Biocollections were inundated when a water mains on Alameda Avenue broke. Fortunately, the water entering the building was noticed around midnight by the cleaning crew and the City of Tempe sent out a team to repair the broken pipe in the street. Unfortunately, however, significant areas in the Mollusk, Invertebrate, and Vertebrate Collections were flooded.

Read more about ASU Biocollections Tour during the 2024 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting

Location: Arizona State University, ASU Biocollections (734 W. Alameda Dr., Tempe, AZ)

During the 2024 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona State University Biocollections hosted an exclusive tour, drawing over 200 attendees. Participants explored one of the nation’s leading biodiversity repositories, featuring the Natural History Collections and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository.

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