The Florida Museum of Natural History, located at the University of Florida, inspires people to value the biological richness and cultural heritage of our diverse world and make a positive difference in its future.
Hand-painted designs in blue, yellow, orange and green, often outlined in manganese
In a new book, a father and daughter scientist duo explore the 100-million-year history of butterflies. From their inauspicious origin as odd, day-flying moths to their modern-day diversity and distribution, Andrei and Alexandra Sourakov provide salient butterfly facts in a short, easy-to-read forma
about some aspect of their behavior, the answer to your questions will be right at hand
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worth of butterflies and moths May 21, 2018 As a 4-year-old, butterfly net in hand
For the last two years, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Museum in the Parks program brought children and families to local state parks for in-person exploration, learning and hands-on fun. They got to meet scientists, explore green spaces and check out rare artifacts from the museum’s collec
press, the bags also include a butterfly net, bug enclosure, bug lens, clipboard, hand
The Florida Museum’s Paleobotany Collection includes about 250,000 specimens, ranging from the Proterozoic to the Pleistocene.* It is international in scope, with collections from more than 50 countries. The strengths are Cretaceous to Eocene of the U.S. western interior, Cretaceous and Eocene of s
slide preparations of fossil woods, leaf cuticles and pollen/spores, as well as hand
Inside the collections of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, there is a collection of cocoon artifacts, donated by Dr. Richard Peigler. While most people associate the use of cocoons with the production of silk (sericulture), cocoons are used in many other ways. For thousands of y
The collection includes various hand and ankle rattles, as well as a charm and necklace
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Insects of all stripes are in the midst of a vanishing act, a catastrophic sleight-of-hand
Bats, as the main predator of night-flying insects, create a selective pressure that has led many of their prey to evolve an early warning system of sorts: ears uniquely tuned to high-frequency bat echolocation. To date, scientists have found at least six orders of insects – including moths, beetles
Gough and the other researchers used a combination of hand nets, light traps and
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Insects of all stripes are in the midst of a vanishing act, a catastrophic sleight-of-hand
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
worth of butterflies and moths May 21, 2018 As a 4-year-old, butterfly net in hand
