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Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales
The Vertebrate Paleontology collection houses the nation’s third-largest collection of cataloged vertebrate fossils, with a total of about 900,000 specimens mainly from the last 65 million years (the Cenozoic Era).* About 75% of the specimens are from about 1,200 localities in Florida. Other major c
of 45 years of fieldwork by John Waldrop of Lake Wales
Ornate Wobbegong Orectolobus ornatus This type of carpet shark has a flat head and stocky body with a stout tail. It has nasal barbels and dermal lobes forming a fringe along the front of its face (Compagno 2001) and is usually a golden brown with dark broad saddles (Compagno 2005). A noctur
commercial fisheries in eastern Australia and New South Wales
Scientists thought Florida Jujube was extinct when it was described from a single Florida Museum specimen collected in 1949. It was later rediscovered in the wild in the 1980s, though due to its limited numbers, the future of this spiny shrub is uncertain. Summary Florida Jujube (Pseudoziziphus
The Lake Wales Ridge, where this plant is found, is
Florida Museum of Natural History scientists are leading a research and education project in Panama with the help of a $3.8 million National Science Foundation grant. The five-year Partnership for International Research and Education grant emphasizes teaching students to conduct research and fiel
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers are asking for help tracking two obscure species of ultra-fuzzy, fast-flying native bees that are most active from August through October. Southeastern plasterer bees live in scrub, pineland and sandhill habitats; adjacent open areas; and along roadsi
southern part of its range may now reach only to Lake Wales
Florida scientists have tagged a deep-sea shark from a submersible, a historic first that took three expeditions, more than 2,000 pounds of bait, custom-built spear guns and over a dozen tries. After multiple attempts were scuppered by bad weather, misfiring spear guns, an interloping grouper and
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales
Researchers curating a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, the largest found in Florida, discovered 87 eggs in the snake, also a state record. Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida campus examined the internal anatomy of the 164.5-pound snake Friday. The
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales
Mushroom-munching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have introduced scientists to a new species of truffle. Commonly used by Congolese communities to bait traps for small mammals, Hysterangium bonobo is also savored by bonobos, an endangered species of great ape. Scientists say the
Georgiev, a primatologist at Bangor University in Wales