Canterbury Museum is entering phase two of a project to catalogue 140-thousand New Zealand insects and list them online as a resource for researchers worldwide.
The significant collection includes craneflies, weta, millipedes and centipedes from all over the country.
Peter Johns' is a research fellow at the museum and has been collecting the insects during his 6 decade career in entomology.
He has also been elected as a Fellow of the Entomological Society of New Zealand, an honour bestowed on only seven other living New Zealand entomologists.
