Southern Arizona entomologists donate bug collection to ASU
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April 2, 2017
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Two southern Arizona entomologists have gifted Arizona State University with some bugs instead of bucks.
The Arizona Daily Star reports (http://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 inse...
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