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Beetles, bugs and butterflies
The Museum's collections of insects and other invertebrate animals contain:
- more than 200,000 specimens
- most of the 15,000 species of insects known from Ireland
- specimens collected almost 200 years ago, right up to the present day
- the Peebles collection of apollo butterflies from Central Asia
- the Langham and Haynes collections of Irish moths and butterflies
- the biggest butterflies (birdwings), the largest mollusc (Giant Clam), and the largest beetle (Goliath Beetle)
Image: Goliath Beetle Goliathus regius. The heaviest insect in the world, native to tropical forests of central Africa