Alex Wild also takes some pretty amazing photographs.
“Imagine a library with over 2 million books with only one librarian. That’s the scope of our collection here,” said Alex Wild, curator of entomology for the College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin. “We have yellow jackets, velvet ants, praying mantises, stick insects, dung beetles, robber flies, butterflies, cicadas, grasshoppers.” The list goes on. Wild manages The University of Texas Insect Collection, an active research center housing 2 million specimens. The collections are focused on Texas and Mexico, with smaller holdings from Trinidad, the Galápagos Islands and elsewhere.
