The Natural History Institute Insect Collection is a growing collection of insect species containing ~990 specimens found in the Mogollon Highlands Ecoregion. We invite local and visiting entomologists to contribute to, view, and identify insects within our collection.

This dramatic landscape of escarpments, canyons, mesas, deserts, and high conifer forests—where the Sonoran Desert of the Basin and Range Province meets the redrock country of the Colorado Plateau and the Southern Rocky Mountains, and where the northern limits of some species coexist with the southern limits of others, is a land of high biological, ecological, and cultural diversity. This region includes ten national forests and more than twenty federal wilderness areas, it has never been examined in depth, as the regions north (Colorado Plateau) and south (Sonoran Desert) have received intensive research attention.

This collection is located on 126 N. Marina St., Prescott, AZ 86301 at the Natural History Institute (NHI), initiated in 19—and is affiliated with Prescott College. The NHI contains a modest herbarium collection as well as a modest entomological collection with strengths in Lepidoptera.