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   ocr: The specimens in the collection range from one of the smallest insects, a species of parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in the eggs of other insects and is barely visible without a magnifying glass, to one of the most massive, the goliath beetle of Africa, which can grow toa a length of three inches and feeds on decaying wood as a larva and on foliage as an adult. This huge collection, to which tens of thousands of specimens are added every year, contains more specimens than all of the Museum's other permanent collections put together. Yet it is largely invisible to visitors, housed out of 23