Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration

This guide was developed at UC Santa Barbara as a general guide for how to image specimens and labels of pinned invertebrate zoology specimens for use as exemplar specimens and as vouchers for databasing. The guide was created by students to help new collection curation students learn and understand the imaging protocols specific for our collection.

The UCSB Invertebrate Zoology Collection is a small collection with taxonomic strengths in Hymenoptera and Diptera. Originally used as a teaching collection for a general entomology course taught from 1961 to 1993, this collection's diversity (9,000 insects in 21 orders and 246 families) makes it a valuable historical record of insects in endangered coastal California habitats. This report was developed as part of the Institute of Museum Library Services Grant (award #MA-30-16-0387-16) to curate and digitize the Adrian Wenner Historic Insect Collection at University of California, Santa Barbara.