Entomologist, primary group of interest - Lepidoptera. @FloridaMuseum

Gainesville, FL, USA
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Looking for a PhD student to help uncover whether our arms and legs, and those of insects, share the same core gene-regulatory network. If interested, please contact antonia.monteiro@nus.edu.sg. NUS's Graduate Program application deadline is 15 Nov 2026.
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Museum Collections 🎭 Wooden Figurine "One of the reasons you can tell he is wearing a mask is the pair of narrow lines on either side of the head. We think this is a cord for attaching the headdress." 🎧 Listen to more with archaeologist Bill Marquardt: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-ye…
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Backyard creatures.
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Museum Resource 🐟 Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida Explore our state's freshwater fish species, including collection records, photos and map. Shown: Jaguar Guapote (Parachromis managuensis), non-indigenous to Florida's freshwaters 🔗 Info & browse: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discov…
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How Stonehenge was built
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Benjamin Genter, a senior at @UF majoring in wildlife ecology and statistics, received the Henri Seibert Award for best student talk at the annual Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in New Orleans. About his research and student career: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scienc…
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Scientist Spotted 🦣 Rachel Narducci, our vertebrate paleontology collection manager, talked with @WEDUpbs about fossil collecting, the Peace River and Florida's natural history—both above and below sea level. 👉 Watch: video.wedu.org/video/greater…
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Front yard, right now. Tersa Sphinx Moth visiting tropical sage.
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Behind @FloridaMuseum yesterday.
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Simple pleasures: watching a cicada spread its wings. This morning, backyard.
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An international team of scientists collected and carbon-dated more than 7,500 marine fossils to understand time averaging—in which organisms from different time periods are preserved together in the same fossil bed. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scienc… Study: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2615368…
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Museum Collections 🔬 Secret Morphology Lepidopterists can often look at butterfly and moth wing patterns to help identify them, but not always. They sometimes have to rely on – genitalia dissection. Read about this from our McGuire Center: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguir…
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Scientists discovered that one of the ocean’s most recognizable corals, the iconic “organ pipe coral” — long believed to be a single species — includes at least 15 genetically distinct lineages. 🪸 Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scienc…
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Butterflies are fun to watch, but did you know that keeping track of your butterfly sightings can help them? Find out how to contribute to research and aid in butterfly conservation @UF_IFAS Gardening Solutions: gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.…
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Museum Collections 🌴 Fossil Palm Feature: Sabalites apalachicolensis "This is a fossil palm leaf that we collected from the base of Alum Bluff, a 52-meter cliff along the Apalachicola River just north of Bristol, Florida." 🎧 More with Terry Lott: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-ye…
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If you zoom in on a spec, you might find a micro universe with aliens in it. As this website (link below) said: "They were likely introduced into the U.S. by "hitch-hiking" in a commercial airplane." content.ces.ncsu.edu/kudzu-b…
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Scientists Spotted 🌳 Doug Soltis collaborated with @LabXNAS on fun video shorts talking about the Tree of Life, how it helps researchers, and what we can learn by examining it. Videos rolling out all week! Check out the playlist as they are released: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Dielis Scoliid wasps settling for the night in #San_Felasco. As larvae, they are parasitic upon larvae of soil-inhabiting scarab beetles.
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Museum Resource 🐠 Fish Families of the World Gallery NEW resource! Searchable gallery of fish families of the world, with photos of specimens, CT scans and 3D models, x-rays, and notes on characteristics, habitats, etc. Browse: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discov…
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