C.P. Gillette Museum

Welcome to the CP Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity. This is our entryway "Ooh and awe" collection. We are excited to share our future outreach endeavors and projects with you all.

This week, our @GilletteMuseum crew geared up for a 4 night bioblitz in @GlacierNPS. The Nocturnal Pollinator BioBlitz will help to close a critical knowledge gap in Glacier regarding the diversity and vulnerability of our nocturnal pollinators (i.e. moths, nocturnal bees, flies)

We have now digitized over 20,000 of our bee specimens for the iDigBees project. Thank you to all of our wonderful and hard working volunteers and interns!

We have digitized around 16,400 specimens for the iDigBees project to date! Each of the insect drawers in the picture is the current work of one of our wonderful volunteers. We couldn't do it without them!

Added @mareklborowiec to our name plaques just outside of the museum doors. We're getting very excited for the arrival of our new director and his lab.

We are very excited to have Dr. Marek Borowiec join our team as the new Director of the CP Gillette Museum! Welcome! twitter.com/mareklborowiec…

We have reached 177,000 data entries for the LepNet project. These entries include 14,300 images and they are 98% identified to species level. We really couldn't do this with our wonderful team of volunteers; thank you all so very much!

We had a great evening at the Alumni Night event! It was great to speak to everyone and to see so many kids excited about insects.

Or volunteers have now digitized over 175,000 specimens for the LepNet project! We thank them for their extraordinary efforts and look forward to more digitization projects.

For Women's History Month we have created a tribute wall to Miriam Palmer (1897-1977). She was a scientific illustrator, aphid researcher, and maker of an amazing collection of wax apples. Her extensive slide collection is still housed in our museum.

We hosted a tour of the museum this morning for 49 undergraduate students in the Systematic Zoology course. It was a lot of fun and we hope to do it again next year!

The Agricultural Biology Department at Colorado State University is hiring a Systematist Professor that will also serve as the new Director here at the CP Gillette Museum! Come join us in beautiful Colorado! @CSU_AgBio @CSUAgSci jobs.colostate.edu/postings/98848

Here is our new C.P. Gillette display containing his portrait, pocket watch, cicada clicker, and other items from his time. He was the first professor of Entomology at Colorado Agricultural College (what is now CSU) and he started our Ento Club in 1912.