While most museum staff are presently teleworking ...

While most museum staff are presently teleworking ...

While most museum staff are presently teleworking, some jobs require a physical presence at the museum. Dr. Kal Ivanov, associate curator of recent invertebrates, and Liberty Hightower, research technician, are working with the museum's bug collection today. To practice proper social distancing, Dr. Ivanov is working in his lab, while Liberty is working in the dry biology collections.

Dr. Ivanov is currently incorporating Megaloptera (alderflies, fish flies, and dobsonflies) specimens back into VMNHs collections, which had been on display inside the Wild Watersheds exhibit that is currently being updated.

Liberty is inside the dry biology collections adding backlogged Curculionoidea (weevils and allies) specimens to the museum's collection, which were obtained during previous field work and donations to the museum.

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