Name: WWU Insect Collection Tour
Start: 2025-03-15
End: 2025-03-15
Location: Biology Building, BI 139 and BI 151

WWU Department of Biology and WWU Entomology Club are hosting an Insect Collection Open House: Saturday, March 15 from 1:00pm-4:00pm in Biology Building Room 151 & 139. This event is free, family friendly, and open to the public.

View many of the 75,000 specimens that make up the largest public insect collection in Western Washington! You'll have the opportunity to see:

• Northern Giant Hornets (aka “Murder Hornets”) from the first nest discovered in the U.S., right here in Whatcom County! '

• Beneficial insects in the region, including a variety of pollinators

• Spectacular butterflies and beetles from the Pacific Northwest and far-flung places

• Fossils of insects that lived 50 million years ago

• Many of the giants among Pacific Northwest insects including Green Darner dragonfly, Giant water bug, and Western Giant Ichneumon wasp

For information about free parking and disability accommodation, see the event page.

Starts: March 15, 2025

Time: 1 - 4 p.m.

Admission: Free!

Location: Biology Building, BI 139 and BI 151
516 High St., Bellingham, WA 98225

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Produced By: WWU Biology Dept and WWU Entomology Club

Contact Person: Merrill Peterson

Phone: 360-650-3627

Email: Biology@wwu.edu

We acknowledge that Whatcom County is located on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. They cared for the lands that included what we’d call the Puget Sound region, Vancouver Island and British Columbia since time immemorial. This gives us the great obligation and opportunity to learn how to care for our surrounding areas and all the natural and human resources we require to live. We express our deepest respect and gratitude for our indigenous neighbors, the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.