blog posts Effort clarifies major branch of insect tree of life Nov 26, 2018 2:30 pm by Diana YatesNatural History Survey Share on Facebook Tweet Email Illinois Natural History Survey entomologist Christopher Dietrich, left, INHS ornithologist Kevin Johnson and their colleagues are sorting out the family relationships among insects known as Hemiptera and their closest cousins. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Images A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences collected a vast amount of molecular data on the Hemiptera order of insects and used the information to help tease out their family relationships and evolutionary history. Share on Facebook Tweet Email