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The news in the Hymenoptera community of the UF Natural Area Teaching Lab (NATL) located behind the Museum: “Bidens, which were in full bloom just three weeks ago, have now all gone to seed, but the Golden Rod’s sweet nectar and abundant pollen are ripe for the plucking instead.” And while Homo s
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When recently a squirrel attacked and devoured an imperial moth in my yard, I searched the internet and found a couple of other examples of this behavior. Several observations of squirrels eating caterpillars and cocoons of silk moths were also sent to me by colleagues. So, if small mammals b
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I spoke with “In Defense of Plants” about the Rattlebox Plants (Crotalaria) and the associated Bella Moth (Utetheisa ornatrix). The gallery below illustrates the fascinating relationships between the moths and the plants and resulted from my field work in the Alachua County, north-central Flo
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One of the perks of working at a natural history museum is not knowing what the day will bring. Once, in the not-too-distant past, I got a call from our front desk: – “A man has brought a deceased, frozen pet tarantula and is looking for help on getting it taxidermized for sentimental reasons. Wo
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Between our McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and the Harn Museum of Arts, we share a plaza with some interesting, I would even say, experimental landscaping. This includes a huge pile of rocks that now has plenty of flowers growing among them so as not to be confused with a rock pile. There are also p
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Some call it “The Spanish Needle,” which, I suppose, invokes thoughts of pain and the Spanish Inquisition at the same time. Other negative epithets include “beggarticks.” Finally, a slightly more enlightened public calls it “butterfly needles” which acknowledges the positive aspect, albeit skeptical
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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
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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
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