A TOUR OF OLIVER GREER'S AWESOME BUG COLLECTION!

Here is a tour of my insect collection. It's on display at the Santa Fe Children's Museum, and thousands of visitors have enthusiastically commented that they have never seen another insect collection anywhere else in the world that compares with mine. Deeply flattering to hear that.

I started collecting local insects at age 10 in 1976. In 1995 I started buying exotic insects from dealers around the world, which is a great way to help save the rainforests.

My sincerest thanks to the insect dealers who have made my collection possible:

Axis Mundi
Chuck Ianni at www.iannibutterfly.net
Fang-Ying Huang at www.insect-sale.com
Ken Thorne at www.thornesinsects.com
Connie Hurt at www.butterfliesandthings.com
Felix Stumpe at www.interinsects.com
Alain Chaminade at www.chaminade-entomologie.com
Michel Lapointe at www.insectcollectorshop.com
Joseph Goh at www.leppidio.com
www.insectworld.com
Steve Lamond in Queensland, Australia
Richard Moore in New Zealand
Greg and Josh Lewallen
Nicholas Potter in Santa Fe (bookseller and honorary insect supplier!)

And a special thank you to Dr. David H. Kistner of Chico, California, for bequeathing the awesome Xixuthrus heros beetle to me. It was an honor to work for you!

Thanks also to BioQuip in Los Angeles and to Robert Waynee for custom-making my display cases.

It is VITALLY important for everyone to know that insects are instinctively the caretakers of our environment, and that they also instinctively and peacefully coexist. Ants don't hijack beetles and crash them into termite mounds because the termites build taller and stronger nests!

Thanks for watching, and enjoy!

Videography by Jesse Bartlett
Edited by Tess Salazar

SEE THE COLLECTION UP CLOSE IN THE NEW ONLINE EXHIBIT AT WWW.SANTAFECHILDRENSMUSEUM.ORG

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[neonvertigo]

Super nice collection, that 8' case is a beast!