Go behind-the-scenes and discover how cool it is to work in a museum! In partnership with the UF Creative B program, join the Florida Museum for FREE virtual trivia Thursday evenings July 9 though Aug. 13 via Zoom. Plus, the first, second and third place winners each week will win 2 tickets to
How to Play: Sign up for the Zoom webinar Upon registering, you will receive a link
Celebrate spiders! Our seventh annual run is the Ta-RUN-tula 5K to get all of your legs moving and invite you in to our new special exhibit, Spiders Alive! The race will be a combination of nature trails and quiet roads here on the UF campus. This is a fun run, so go at your own pace. We won’t be r
After signing up Send the race coordinator a link/screen shot of your GPS watch,
Join Florida Museum Director Doug Jones along with Alex Cobb and Fred Rowe of the University of Florida Foundation for a virtual happy hour discussion on building a meaningful legacy. You’ll learn: Strategies for charitable gift planning. Information on what the CARES Act means for you and
RSVP to rsvp@flmnh.ufl.edu Zoom link will be emailed the week of the event.
Many thanks to all of our supporters who attended our sold out Drink with the Extinct event last night, Nov. 3rd! We were able to raise a record amount of funds in support of our Pop-Up Museum program, which brings researchers, hands-on activities and natural science exploration to the Gainesville c
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Systematics and evolution of Ithomiini Background The nymphalid butterfly tribe Ithomiini (ithomiines) is one of the best studied groups of Lepidoptera, and has served as a model in research on biogeography, chemical ecology and evolution. The tribe is exclusively neotropical, containing approxima
co-mimetic butterflies often fed on the same hostplant species, suggesting an important link
Using the CROC Database The materials in the CROC database stem from excavations carried out at Cerros (Cerro Maya) by David Freidel between 1974 and 1981. Subsequent research by Debra Walker 1993 to 1995 is not included at this time. Search Function You may SEARCH for one item at a time, multipl
selection of artifacts will appear at the bottom of the screen, each with a 3D link
The University of Florida Herbarium applies donations to fund student, staff, and faculty research in plant systematics, and to help grow and diversify the herbarium. Past and current donations have helped to fund and train students on mounting historic plant specimens as well as trips to collect sp
Link to donate directly to the Herbarium Fund Contact Info University of Florida
Creating my own content for the Institute’s social media channels exposed me to a completely new side of the state.
Science communication is a wonderful medium to link people to the world around them
Last week, I was about to go to work, when I spotted a drama unfolding on my window: a green anole had captured a sphinx moth. Of course, I had to stop and investigate. Moth predation by anoles is not something worth blogging about in its own right, but this sphinx moth was the size of the anole’s
There is a detailed page about green anoles (link below): ADW: Anolis carolinensis
Scientific Significance The Montbrook fossil site is the first late Hemphillian (NALMA) site found in north Florida. It is located about 120 miles (200 km) north of the Palmetto Fauna, the state’s only other source of late Hemphillian fossils. Unlike that region, Montbrook is producing more complet
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