Michael Skvarla, director of the Insect Identification ... to compelling human interest stories. Skvarla and his colleagues eventually confirmed that the specimen was indeed a giant lacewing ...

The largest genome of any insect, seven times the size of the human genome, was recently discovered in a grasshopper. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers from the German Leibniz ...

Skvarla is director of the university's Insect Identification Lab. "The Polystoechotes punctata or giant lacewing is the first of its kind recorded in eastern North America in over 50 years -- and ...

JACKSON, MI – See giant insects closer than ever in a ... The exhibit takes people into the hidden world of insects through human-sized images of insects, Executive Director Julie Johnson ...

The discovery raises new questions about the distribution of the Jurassic-era insect that mysteriously vanished from the eastern seaboard decades ago. The giant lacewing was once abundant across ...