Development of interactive application for insectarium of natural resources museum, UMK Jeli Campus

• Main Author: Hamdan, Ros Asifa
• Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
• Published: 2020
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/4160/

The Natural Resources Museum at Faculty of Earth Science (FSB), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan is one of the faculty's facilities initiatives in collecting, documenting as well as to exhibit the Malaysia's natural resources such as plants, insects and similar arthropods, rocks, minerals and fossil, some of which are the country's invaluable treasures. Insectarium often show and display many types of insects and arthropods. The collection of insects was collected all around Malaysia. Some of the database of the sample has the coordinate of location where they have been found. These displays are available at the Natural Resources Museum, UMK Jeli Campus which able to focus on learning about insects, their types, habitats, the importance and the work of entomologist, arachnologists and other scientists that study terrestrial arthropods and similar animals. Over 1000 species of samples have been collected since the existence of FSB at UMK Jeli Campus in 2010. Only several samples of insects have been taken to be exhibited at school or institution and also during the promotion of the FSB at the state and national level. This project developed the first Android apps for insectarium of Natural Resources Museum, UMK Jeli Campus. By developing this interactive application, the Android apps will help to inculcate the students and people awareness directly towards Natural Resources Museum. The Android apps is successfully develops. About 109 samples have been selected and the images of insects were captured in order to develop the mobile apps. The 109 samples are from nine Order which is Blattodea, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Odonata, Orthoptera and Phasmatodea.