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- Tamilnadu Chief Minister opened an insect museum in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU)
- It is established at the Department of Agricultural Entomology of TNAU.
- The museum houses 20,000 insects from 50 species
COIMBATORE, TAMIL NADU, 26/03/2018: Visitors at the country's first insect museum was inaugurated byTamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University campus in Coimbatore on March 26, 2018. Photo: M_ Periasamy[/caption]
- The museum has displays of both beneficial and harmful insects.
- The facility is claimed to be the first insect museum in India.
- The museum, which has been built on an area of 6,691sqft, has an exhibit area that has seven radial walls with displays under themes such as insect diversity, insect biology, beneficial insects, insects and plants and cultural entomology.
- Curated specimen of 27 orders of insects are on display.
- The museum also has TV screens, which display insect-related information, insect shaped dioramas and a souvenir shop.
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