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.
By Walter Fertig, Arizona State University herbarium
Originally published in Sego Lily 2016 Vol 39(1):6-8.
The Hasbrouck Insect Collection is named in honor of Dr. Frank F. Hasbrouck, an expert on the "burrowing webworm moth" family Acrolophidae (Lepidotera) who was recruited to Arizona State University in 1962. Hasbrouck presided over the collection for nearly 25 years. Under his energetic and meticulous curatorship, the collection grew from approximately 50,000 specimens - which had been accumulated gradually since the 1910s and mainly in service of teaching endeavors - to about 650,000 specimens.
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