PHOTO GALLERY: Millions of insects, specimens housed at Enns Entomology Museum

Scores of Morpho butterflies, whose metallic, reflective inner-wings dazzle in all kinds of light, are suspended on pins at the Enns Entmology Museum. These butterflies make use of another trick to discourage predator birds: The outside of their wings are dotted with yellow "eyes" to make the pursuers miss their prey.   |  Bobby Watson

Several ceremonial hair braids from Central America, adorned with metallic green scarab beetle wing coverings, rest on display outside the Enns Entomology Museum at the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.   |  Bobby Watson

Specimens of venomous arachnids are preserved for study under glass and in vials in the Enns Entomology Museum at the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. Bites from black widow and brown recluse spiders are the most commonly reported bites in Missouri, though fewer than 5 percent of those are fatal.   |  Bobby Watson