Octogenarian Couple Donates $10 Million Insect Collection
Charles and Lois O'Brien love each other, and they love bugs. The two entomologists have collected more than a million specimens, which they are donating to Arizona State University.
It's a love story for the ages: a boy, a girl and more than a million bugs.
Lois and Charlie O'Brien, two octogenarian entomologists, have spent their life together chasing insects around the world — some 60 years of romance and field work. Now the married scientists are donating their vast insect collection to Arizona State University.
ASU estimates the collection is worth with "enormous scientific value." The couple also donated $2 million to endow professorships dedicated to identifying new species.
