{"id":3629,"date":"2017-09-06T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2017-09-06T07:13:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:13:53","slug":"buggin-out-cals-insect-museum-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/news\/buggin-out-cals-insect-museum-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Buggin’ Out: CALS’ Insect Museum Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"

When is a gift of 60,000+ insects a good thing? When it becomes part of NC State\u2019s Insect Museum<\/a>, a collection of more than 1.5 million specimens that serves as a research and teaching resource for both scientists and students.<\/p>\n

Bob Blinn, the museum\u2019s collection manager, said it\u2019s one of the largest and most significant gifts that the museum has received since he started working there in 1987.<\/p>\n

The collection, created by the late Jose A. Ramos, contains more than 60,000 specimens of insects belonging to the suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) — cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers.<\/p>\n

Ramos, who was an NC State alumnus and biology professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, collected the insects from the Caribbean Islands and from Central and South America from the 1930s to 1970s.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Ramos was regarded as the pre-eminent expert on Caribbean Auchenorrhyncha,\u201d Blinn said. \u201cThe Auchenorrhyncha \u2026 is one of the strongest taxonomic groups in the NC State University Insect Museum, for which we are known internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramos earned his master\u2019s degree from NC State in 1945 and his Ph.D. in 1956. He studied under the direction of distinguished entomologist Z.P. Metcalf, who also was an Auchenorrhyncha expert. Ramos\u2019 son, Dr. Stuart Ramos, donated the collection to the university.<\/p>\n

The Insect Museum is part of CALS\u2019 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"When is a gift of 60,000+ insects a good thing? When it becomes part of NC State\u2019s Insect Museum<\/a>, a collection of more than 1.5 million specimens that serves as a research and teaching resource for both scientists and students.\r\n\r\nBob Blinn, the museum\u2019s collection manager, said it\u2019s one of the largest and most significant gifts that the museum has received since he started working there in 1987.\r\n\r\nThe collection, created by the late Jose A. Ramos, contains more than 60,000 specimens of insects belonging to the suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) -- cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers.\r\n\r\nRamos, who was an NC State alumnus and biology professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, collected the insects from the Caribbean Islands and from Central and South America from the 1930s to 1970s.\r\n\r\n\u201cDr. Ramos was regarded as the pre-eminent expert on Caribbean Auchenorrhyncha,\u201d Blinn said. \u201cThe Auchenorrhyncha \u2026 is one of the strongest taxonomic groups in the NC State University Insect Museum, for which we are known internationally.\u201d\r\n\r\nRamos earned his master\u2019s degree from NC State in 1945 and his Ph.D. in 1956. He studied under the direction of distinguished entomologist Z.P. Metcalf, who also was an Auchenorrhyncha expert. Ramos\u2019 son, Dr. Stuart Ramos, donated the collection to the university.\r\n\r\nThe Insect Museum is part of CALS\u2019 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology<\/a>."},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When is a gift of 60,000+ insects a good thing? When it becomes part of NC State\u2019s Insect Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[125,127,126],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-department-of-entomology-and-plant-pathology","tag-entomology","tag-insects"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}