The Wisconsin Insect Research Collection (WIRC) housed in CALS’ Russell Labs, contains ca. 3 million curated specimens with an additional 3-5 million specimens in the backlog. In recent years 20,000-50,000 specimens have been added each year.

Home Page: http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/wirc/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

• 92,348 occurrence
• 71,523 (77%) georeferenced
• 60,423 (65%) identified to species
• 103 families
• 608 genera
• 1,464 species
• 1,464 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)