The Florida Museum of Natural History is excited to welcome visitors back! Should you not feel ready to return just yet, please continue to enjoy our extensive online resources or email newsletters. Thank you for your endless support over these last few years and we look forward to seeing you so
In addition, hand sanitizer stations are available
The Florida Museum of Natural History is excited to welcome visitors back! Should you not feel ready to return just yet, please continue to enjoy our extensive online resources or email newsletters. Thank you for your endless support over these last few years and we look forward to seeing you so
In addition, hand sanitizer stations are available
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
great deal known about them, which means that on one hand
Complete the UF Herbarium’s loan contract. This only needs to be done once for all loans you want us to request for your study. But, there may need to be a discussion about case space with your advisor, if you want a lot of loans. Contact the herbarium staff where you plan to visit to arrange for
institutions prefer for you to show up with a request in hand
As a long time runner and a logistics lover, being the race director for the museum’s 5K is one of my favorite job duties. The planning for the 4th annual race started last April, registration opened in July, medals were ordered, shirts and posters were designed, partnerships were formed, we sold ou
medals, sweet shirts, awesome prizes and incredible hand-designed
Comedian Adam Conover believed the world would be better off without mosquitoes – until entomologist Akito Kawahara joined his “Factually!” podcast. Kawahara, associate curator at the Florida Museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, explained that mosquitoes are a vital source of
Here are three simple ways to lend insects a hand.
A new National Science Foundation grant allows scientists to prepare vertebrate paleontology specimens at the Florida Museum of Natural History, which houses the nation’s third-largest collection of cataloged vertebrate fossils. The $455,000 three-year project includes preparing 2-million-year-ol
communication with Waldrop to correctly interpret hand-written
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
was time demanding because in the old collection hand
By his mid-20s, Keith Reeves had traveled the world. When he settled in Florida in the 1960s, however, it was in many ways an alien place: No ancient monuments like the pyramids he climbed in Egypt or mountains like those on South Pacific islands where he lived as a “Navy brat,” but a wet-hot, often
experienced these living, breathing native cultures first-hand
Labyrinth crab, Glyptoxanthus labyrinthicus (Stimpson, 1860) The labyrinth crab, Glyptoxanthus labyrinthicus (Stimpson, 1860), is one of 8 species in the genus Glyptoxanthus A. Milne Edwards, 1859, which belongs to one of the largest families within the order Decapoda, the crab family Xanthidae. Th
On the other hand, the hairy eroded crab, G. meandricus
