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      A History of Celebrating the Insect Zoo

      • Date: August 23, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary

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    3. Gathering specimens in the field for the insect zoo at the National Museum of Natural History, August 8, 1972, by Harry Neufeld.

      Bug Hunting

      • Date: September 16, 2014
      • Description: In the early years of the National Museum of Natural History’s Insect Zoo, staff members, volunteers and their family ventured out to local field, streams and even monuments to collect specimens.

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      Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”

      • Date: September 1, 2020
      • Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.

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    7. Some Creepy Crawly Recipes in Time for Halloween

      • Date: October 30, 2012
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Just in time for Halloween, more insect recipes found in the Archives.

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      What’s Bugging Us

      • Date: May 27, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The Brood X cicadas are here, which inspired us to see what buggy treats we have in the archives.

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    11. Instructions for fingerprint animals from the Friend of the National Zoo publica

      Crafting from the Collections: Fingerprint Animals

      • Date: December 20, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Archives staff makes fingerprint animals based on craft activity found in zoo publication from 1970s.

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    13. Beautiful Worms, by Wm Jas, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic.

      Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies, Anyone?

      • Date: September 1, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Earlier this year, I blogged about a recipe for “Elephant Skin and Ivory” (a black and white tinted candy) that I found in the 1984 National Museum of Natural History Docent Cookbook. Well, while researching the history of the same museum’s Insect Zoo for my recent blog post, I came across another recipe that I'd like to share—mealworm chocolate chip cookies.This recipe

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    15. A man and woman watch a small, orange monkey on a branch indoors. A carton of food is hanging on a branch.

      Going Wild with Golden Lion Tamarins

      • Date: July 25, 2019
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: In 1984, the National Zoo began reintroducing golden lion tamarins to the wild resulting in a conservation success.

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      Animal Collecting in Liberia - 1940

      • Date: July 29, 2014
      • Description: Newly digitized footage gives us a glimpse of the 1940 Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia.

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    19. Cockroach Kitchen, Dynamics of Evolution Hall, 1979, photographic print, Accession 13-125 - National Museum of Natural History, Office of Education, Exhibition Records, 1978-1979, 1995-1996, 2003, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. 87-7526.

      The Cockroach Kitchen

      • Date: October 29, 2013
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A cockroach covered kitchen illustrated population potential in a National Museum of Natural History exhibit.

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      Link Love: 4/8/2011

      • Date: April 8, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently

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    23. Black and white photograph of a baby two-toed sloth in a basket holding the finger of its caretaker.

      A (Brief) History of Sloths at the Smithsonian

      • Date: October 20, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: …in which a member of the Archives staff turns her passion for sloths into a mission to research their history at the Smithsonian Institution.

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