Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Wilder Westen

McGuire Center Curator Keith Willmott is a keen researcher of Neotropical butterfly systematics and has a long history of field research in Ecuador, where many of his students also work each summer. We introduce two of this year’s students and their projects. Olivia Maule is a third-year undergradu
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Mycteroperca microlepis This oblong fish has small eyes over a pointed snout, and a continuous dorsal fin to a square caudal fin. Their colors vary by age and gender, but they range from gray to light brown with darker blotches or squiggles, giving it a faint marble pattern, or darker to a camouf
They prefer rocky or grassy bottoms of coastal waters in the Western Atlantic, where

Lepidoptera Novae Lepidoptera Novae (ISSN 1941-1014, Editor: John B. Heppner) is a fully refereed scientific journal devoted to butterflies and moths from all regions of the world. Papers suitable for the journal are those including descriptions of new Lepidoptera genera and species, taxonomic revi
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The following checklist represents a revision of Local Flora – Vascular Plants of North Central Florida by Dana G. Griffin, III (1978). This checklist was derived from existing lists and expanded through observations made during several University of Florida field courses and a study of records at
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Ahmed, M. Z., M. Naveed, M. Noor ul Ane, S. X. Ren, P. D. Barro, and B. L. Qiu. 2014. Host suitability comparison between the MEAM1 and AsiaII 1 cryptic species of Bemisia tabaci in cotton growing zones of Pakistan. Pest Management Science DOI: 10.1002/ps.3716. Bae, Y. S., B. W. Lee, and K. T. Pa
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S cientists have described a new native Hawaiian land snail species, sounding a rare, hopeful note in a story rife with extinction. Pacific island land snails are among the world’s most imperiled wildlife, with more recorded extinctions since 1600 than any other group of animals. Hawaii’s once
“There are so many things in our collection that we can no longer find in the wild

Riley Gott began his doctoral studies in August 2022 studying the taxonomy and systematics of the primarily Neotropical butterfly genera Dalla, Ladda, and Piruna (family Hesperiidae), under a joint graduate assistantship from the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and the Entomology and
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A pivotal new study led by NatureServe reveals that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction. This first-of-its-kind, taxonomically diverse assessment evaluated nearly 1,600 species—including bees, beetles, butterflies, moths, flower flies, bats a
And you don’t have to go hog wild on this. Little changes can go a long way.

The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country. The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) still grows on a few scattered islands in the Caribb
Small noted that the Key tree cactus “was for a long time very abundant [on Key West

Calhoun, J., L. D. Miller, and J. Y. Miller. 2005. Melitaea nycteis Doubleday, 1847 (currently Chlosyne nycteis; Insecta, Lepidoptera): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62(2): 79-83. Covell, C. V. Jr. 2005. A FIELD GUIDE TO EASTERN MOTHS, Virginia M
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