TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Two southern Arizona entomologists have gifted Arizona State University with some bugs instead of bucks.
The Arizona Daily Star reports (https://bit.ly/2onLOWj ) Green Valley husband-wife entomology team of Lois and Charlie O’Brien has donated their collection of 1.25 million insects to the state university. The collection is valued at $12 million.
The O’Brien’s won’t be shipping their entire collection to Tempe immediately. They say they still have a number of unidentified specimens they need to work with.
The couple is donating their weevils and planthoppers to ASU’s insect museum. The pair met while attending the University of Arizona. But Charlie O’Brien says ASU’s bug collection is broader than their alma mater’s.
ASU’s insect collection has about 750 specimens from all over the world.
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Information from: Arizona Daily Star, https://www.tucson.com
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