The newly-rehoused foreign collections cover most orders but are especially strong in butterflies from the Old World, beetles and aculeate Hymenoptera. The extensive spider collections, which include the Blackwall and Pickard-Cambridge collections, comprise over 10,000 specimens and more than 3,000 Types. The teaching displays cover topics such as insect diversity and classification, insect evolution, rain forests and the impact of insect on humans. The Entomological Collections are an international resource and staff deal with around one hundred loan requests representing many hundred or thousands of specimens annually from taxonomists at home an abroad. The Hope Library of Entomology contain many very old and rare books, modern texts, periodicals and archives.
Staff have varied research interests in the area of insect taxonomy, physiology and behaviour.
Bugs of the World. The Type-Material of Diptera described by G.H. Verrall and J.E. Collin . Oxford University Museum Publication no. 3. Oxford University Press. A History of the Hope Entomological Collections in the University Museum, Oxford with lists of Archives and Collections .