Malaysian dragonflies, beetles, grasshoppers and crickets are being digitised for research.

Museum digitisation specialists are working with Ecotourism and Conservation Society Malaysia (ECOMY). The team is aiming to digitise representative specimens for 5,000 species across a range of taxonomic groups. The focus will be on insects such as damselflies, dragonflies, praying mantids, grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, stick insects, moths and beetles. Data will be available to download via the Museum's Data Portal, and a copy will also be stored in Malaysia.



A digitisation push The Museum is on a mission to digitise everything in its collection – all 80 million specimens. Natural history collections around the globe hold information critical to tackling fundamental scientific and societal challenges. Digitisation will help to render this information accessible to scientists, researchers, data analysts, citizen scientists and students from all over the world. The Museum's Digital Collections Programme was initiated in 2014 to digitise objects and specimens in the Museum’s collection and openly release this data.