Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Guinea

Life Behind the Museum – Butterfly Caterpillars that Feed on Mistletoes – Andrei Sourakov | Lepidoptera Collections Coordinator

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/andrei-sourakov/activities/i-do-know-therell-be-no-snow-but-larvaell-feed-on-mistletoe/

Christmas is almost here, and the season-appropriate songs are filling the radio waves and ears of last-minute shoppers. Among them are mistletoe songs, which, every time I hear them, remind me of the butterflies that feed on them as caterpillars. Here, in Florida, these are the Great Purple (actual
For instance, in the Pacific (e.g., New Guinea) and in the Southeast Asia, caterpillars

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Beware the underwater vampires – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/beware-the-underwater-vampires/

The sea is full of vampires, animals whose sustenance comes from the blood of other animals. We highlight five bloodsuckers fit to give you shivers. Grab some garlic and holy water, and take a look. 1. Totally into you Snails in the family Eulimidae (pronounced YOO’-lee-mee-day) target animals suc
Celebrating pollinators Life on Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea

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Go, Go, Gadget ARMS! – Invertebrate Zoology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/2019/03/01/go-go-gadget-arms/

At the beginning of the year, Gustav and I traveled to Hong Kong to help with an ARMS project led by David Baker’s lab at Hong Kong University.  Gustav is highly sought-after for his extensive invertebrate expertise, and I…know a lot about putting animals in jars.  If you don’t know what ARMS are,
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The Adventures of Jenna and Mandy: Mission Impossible? – Invertebrate Zoology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/2015/05/13/the-adventures-of-jenna-and-mandy-mission-impossible/

Our mission, should we choose to accept it, will be to find the worm Chaetopterus pergamentaceus from its type locality of „Antilles.“ Armed with that informative location description (thanks, Cuvier), Jenna’s keen sense of worm-dar, and Google Earth, we gladly accepted the mission and headed off to
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St. Martin wrap-up – Invertebrate Zoology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/2012/05/25/st-martin-wrap-up/

Our last days on St. Martin were a flurry of activity. Our last day was spent draining ethanol in preparation for our flight and packing up all our specimens and gear. The four of us who were returning to Gainesville checked a total of 9 bags eliciting the curiosity of our fellow passengers and the
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Links – Invertebrate Zoology

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Invertebrates on the Web Florida Museum resources SNAILS of Florida (FL) Collection Databases (FL) Discover Science (FL) Biodiversity Large-scale projects Census of Marine Life Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
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Researcher receives grant to study echolocation in moths – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/researcher-receives-grant-to-study-echolocation-in-moths/

Whether by buzzing, singing, cawing or hissing, plenty of animals boast their own form of communication. But researchers now hope to unlock a common predator-prey language found in insects and mammals: echolocation in hawkmoths and bats. “Moths and bats are completely unrelated yet they are t
The grant will fund research in Ecuador, French Guinea and Borneo, molecular biology

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The first few days: hit the ground running – Invertebrate Zoology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/2012/04/12/the-first-few-days-hit-the-ground-running/

These first few days have been busy! We arrived Sunday evening after a quick 2 hour flight from Miami. We settled into our place, had a good meal and got up the next morning ready to get to work. We have been brought on board to do a biodiversity survey of the French Marine National Park on St. Mart
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A Remote Possibility – Invertebrate Zoology

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/2020/05/20/a-remote-possibility/

I hope this post finds you safe and healthy.  Here at the Florida Museum, things have been shut down for a while, and it has given us a great opportunity to tackle all the parts of our job that our job prevents us from doing.  Now that we are not out in the field, or physically in the museum answeri
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