Keith Wilmott, associate curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, discusses his research on the biodiversity of butterflies, with a focus on euptychiine, a common yet diverse group. He spends time with research students in the Amazon every yea
there is still – there’s a great deal known about them, which means that on one hand
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A staple on the sidelines for Gator sports teams, Gatorade also replenishes a different kind of athlete at the University of Florida: butterflies. The sports drink serves as a substitute for nectar in a laboratory-maintained colony of Miami blues, among the most critically endangered butterflies
Live flowering plants were too cumbersome, and hand-feeding was out of the question
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Ictalurus punctatus This is North America’s most popular and populated catfish, residing in lakes, rivers, swamps and even high up in estuaries with lower salinity. Channel catfish have a varied diet, and have the largest eyes in the catfish family, as well as specialized taste buds all over thei
Noodlers insert their hand into such areas, offering their fingers as tempting bait
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On June 2 and 3, the RRC at Pineland hosted a visit by a remarkable array of specialists in archaeological sciences, all members of the RRC Research and Collections Committee, and all employed by or affiliated with the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Led by Committee Chair
A focus of the team’s efforts was to get a first-hand look at the Surf Clam Ridge
In March, the Scientist in Every Florida School program coordinated its 500th classroom visit to schools in Palm Beach County.
youth have been able to meet and chat with ‘real’ scientists to offer a first-hand
The FLAS collection was initially organized under two curatorial styles. The modern collection was kept in envelope-type packets, placed vertically and organized in archival trays. Another part of the collection, encompassing most of the historical collections that date back to the 1800s (Severin Ra
This step was time demanding because in the old collection hand written labels are
Despite the fact that the Pineland site is situated well south of the natural geologic range of stone suitable for making tools and other implements, shell tools were not the only items of this sort recovered during recent field- work at Surf Clam Ridge. During 2003-2004 excavations in Pineland
This same hearth layer produced a hand-sized water-worn cobble of quartzite, possibly
