While we often think of bees as fuzzy, black and yellow-striped buzzy insects that live in hives like the honey bee, the truth is more gorgeous and diverse than that! Honey bees do a lot of agricultural labor for humans and are very important to farming, but here in North America most of these domes
In fact, people who identify bees for a living often have to look at really small
NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Florida Green Water Snake Basic description Most adult Florida Green Watersnakes are about 30-55 inches (76-140 cm) in total length. Adults are stout-bodied snakes and may be greenish, brownish, or orangish, with no real distinctive markings other than dark speckl
They have not been recorded in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Holmes counties
This object is on permanent display in the Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land exhibit, located in the End of the Pleistocene corner case. Summary Mammoth Ivory Point with Incised Pattern From Jefferson Co., Florida Lived/Made ~12,000 years ago Collection Florida Archaeology Story
Similar shaped tools of bone and ivory have been found across Florida as well as
Mammals of Lake Worth Lagoon
+ Resources Florida Museum Fish Collection Overview For the past decade we have
Biologists discovered the Maryland Darter in 1912 in a creek in Maryland, and the reclusive fish wasn’t seen again until being found in a different creek in the 1960s. Infrequent sightings of the fish continued until it was last seen in 1988. Summary Maryland Darter (Etheostoma sellare) From Ha
the only species of freshwater fish in the United States known with certainty to have
Archaeopedology at the Lake Monroe Outlet Midden (8VO53) By Sylvia J. Scudder The Site Setting Volusia County, FL is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the west by the St. Johns River. The landscape is formed from a series of beach ridges and terraces that accumulated tens of thousa
lakes and marshes provide a rich variety of habitats and animal resources that have
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
the rainforests of Peru and Brazil, but even the most seasoned butterfly experts have
Pamela Soltis, a curator and distinguished professor of molecular systematics and evolutionary genetics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the museum’s Genetic Resource Repository, including its history and impact on research. Soltis, who also is a member of the UF Genetics Institut
purpose of housing DNA samples, RNA samples, and frozen tissues so that we could have
Probing the contours of some of the world’s most dangerous underwater caves: that’s how Brian Kakuk discovered the Bahamas’ oldest crocodile, tortoise and even human remains—remnants of a sunken world. For four years, the expert diver and scientists, including University of Florida ornithologist
From a scientific standpoint, we have basically been here since the splitting of
NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Brown Water Snake Basic description Most adult Brown Watersnakes are about 30-60 inches (76-152 cm) in total length. These stout-bodied snakes are light tan with squarish darker brown blotches down the middle of the back. Dark squarish markings also extend upwards
Cottonmouths have vertically elliptical (cat-like) pupils, whereas watersnakes have
