Can insects create art? In huge numbers, bark beetles inscribe their life stories onto dead wood. Entire cities are carved out in each tree, cities that flourish one year only to collapse the next year from competition and disease. Like many human civilizations before ours, each bark beetle generat
The young, living in pits around the main tunnel, spread the fungus even farther
Starry Night will not be held in 2021. Meet astronomers, enjoy interactive activities and see a portable planetarium show. This is a FREE, fun-filled night of astronomical proportions! Doors open and event begins at 6 p.m. A sample list of activities are available below along with more inf
Cosmic Time Tunnel (Galleria) Experience a journey through cosmic time and space
The Florida mouse and gopher tortoise have been in a serious relationship for thousands of years. Theirs is a commensal one: The Florida mouse uses the gopher tortoise’s burrow as shelter from the heat, but the tortoise gains nothing. While the mouse also makes its way into other animals’
but needs shelter from the heat, so it builds a side passageway off of the main tunnel
Plants may seem like some of nature’s most passive creatures, but some have a say in how they live and even where they live. Cody Howard, a Ph.D. candidate in the Cellinese Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is hot on the trail of geophytes, plants with underground storage structures,
by Halle Marchese and Cody Howard • June 28, 2019 Some geophytes can tunnel
Feeding Giants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj4Em8ssHE0 Surreal Cerebral https://youtu.be/lyqNOlKqVt4 Flocculation of Yeast https://youtu.be/hPKou3mVsY0 Berlin in Hyperlapse – A Time & Motion Study https://youtu.be/fhn33-mxIMM Leopards in India https://youtu.be/srT
Rangifer tarandus Our invasive ants: little fire ants (Wasmannia auropunctata) Blood Tunnel
R esearchers have identified an invasive blood-sucking parasite on mud shrimp in the waters of British Columbia’s Calvert Island. The discovery represents the northern-most record of the parasite on the West Coast and is likely an indication of its ability to spread without human transport. Or
nutrients when they filter food, pumping oxygenated water into an expansive network of tunnel
In the summer of 2020, Florida Museum researchers Tobias Grun and Michał Kowalewski dove into the shallow waters off the coast of the Florida Keys and scoured the ocean floor for sea urchins. Telltale tracks and dimples in the sediment alerted them to the presence of sand dollars, sea biscuits and h
As they tunnel their way through sand, silt and mud in an endless quest for food,
You might think the buffest frogs would be high jumpers, but if you want shredded pecs, you should train like a burrowing frog. Though famously round, these diggers are the unsung bodybuilders of the frog world. We bring you tips from frog expert Rachel Keeffe, a doctoral student at the University o
Most tunnel hind end-first with their back legs.
From March 11-14, TESI Environmental Leaders Fellows embarked on a mission to learn about environmental research, community engagement, and K-12 environmental education in Florida during their Spring Break Field Experience.
After walking through the “Underwater World Up Close” giant tunnel that shows the
Akito Kawahara was snapping pictures at a scenic outlook in Hawaii when he spotted the moth equivalent of a dodo. An entomologist, Kawahara recognized the squiggly patterns on nearby plants as trails carved by leaf-mining caterpillars and lowered his camera to take a closer look. To his astonishm
Philodoria is found nowhere except Hawaii, it is related to the common caterpillars that tunnel
