Biology 447 - Insect Diversity Lab

This lab course offers an overview of insect diversity. Students will assemble and curate a collection of local insects, learn to identify insect orders and common families, participate in class research projects, and conduct an individual research or service project. Projects may involve analyzing composition of local insect communities, helping curate the UMass insect museum collection, creating online identification resources through iNaturalist, or becoming a relative expert on taxonomy of a particular insect group.

BIOLOGY 151/161H,152/162H w/ C Additional lab fees are associated with this section.