Citizen scientists played key role in building Utah museum’s vast collections

Before citizen science was a thing, there were people like Ezra Day, a guy who lived in what used to be called Hunter, Utah, and indulged an insatiable curiosity about the world around him.He came home from fighting a bloody war in Europe a century ago, and made his living as a postal worker, but made a life as an insect collector insects and nature observer. By the time of his death in 1980, his collection included 5,000 specimens and numerous notebooks that took up an entire room of his family