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Collections Coordinator McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 352-273-2013, Email: asourakov@flmnh.ufl.edu Additional appointments: Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept. of Entomology and Nematology Edu
donate lifetimes’ worth of butterflies and moths As a 4-year-old, butterfly net in hand

University of Florida researchers are taking down the Plexiglas walls between museum collections and K-12 classrooms with an educational program that uses 3-D printed fossils and hands-on lessons to spark young learners’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Known as iDigFossils,
Being able to physically hold something in your hand … is definitely very engaging

Scomberomorus regalis This solitary torpedo-shaped fish is streamlined and strong, with finlets running between the prominent second dorsal and anal fins, and the crescent caudal (tail) fin. It is a green-blue from above, and mostly silvery white except for brassy spots and streaks on its sides n
On the other hand, the dark coloration of the cero mackerel’s back blends in with

By the middle of the seventeenth century, the Franciscan mission effort had expanded northward to the Carolinas, and westward to present day Tallahassee. It is estimated that there were seventy Franciscan missionaries in some forty Spanish doctrinas in Florida, ministering to about 25,000 Apalachee,
A 1759 account noted that “the fat horses (reach a height) of seven or more hand

Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
audible clicking sound, but we don’t know how they do it; and I can count on my hand

Numerous new arthropods show up in Florida every year with several of them becoming invasive pests that potentially threaten food crops, landscapes, and native habitats. For a new pest to thrive and establish, it needs suitable host(s) and environmental conditions. When these conditions are met, th
The beetle larvae, on the other hand, are much more noticeable but are often mistaken

The Aucilla River Prehistory Project was an archaeological and paleontological project excavating a particularly rich series of deposits that yielded ancient megafaunal remains in association with Paleoindian artifacts. The Aucilla River flows into the Big Bend area of northwestern Florida. The riv
Larger artifacts and bones are hand collected by the divers.

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast in September, and less than a month later, Milton slammed into the peninsula between Tampa and Fort Myers at a nearly 90-degree angle. The area was subjected to 120 mph winds
GatorCorps members and UF Gulf Scholar students visited the center to lend a helping hand

Day 1: Saturday, February 5, 2022 My first day on the dig! I had no idea what to expect. I arrived in the morning, it was so cold, I was glad to have as many layers as I did. I was given my instructions, gathered my tools, and was told to pick a square. The pressure! How could I possibly choose one
what I was doing, no interruptions meant that I could really focus on the task at hand

While standing next to a shelf filled with thousands of aging reel-to-reel and other tape recordings of bird sounds collected over the past 40 years, Florida Museum of Natural History ornithologist Tom Webber inspected an especially fragile reel from the 1960s. “Eventually, even the magnetic plas
But the older ones,� he said as he paused, running his hand across a stack of worn