Three Florida Museum postdocs receive UF awards
Three postdoctoral associates at the Florida Museum of Natural History have received awards from the University of Florida highlighting their…
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Maintaining an essential habitat: What’s good for pollinators is good for utility companies too
Electric power companies dedicate significant resources to clearing overgrown plants and debris from the area surrounding power lines. These areas…
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Remembering Florida Museum curator Jacqueline Miller
Jacqueline Miller, Allyn curator emerita at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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Moths may use disco gene to regulate day/night cycles
How does one species become two? If you’re a biologist, that’s a loaded question. The consensus is that, in most…
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Daniels Lab receives UF Champions for Change award
The Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History has received a Champions for Change award in recognition for their…
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Bella moths use poison to attract mates. Scientists are closer to finding out how
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are as bitter and toxic as they are hard to pronounce. They’re produced by several different types of…
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New book charts the history and evolution of world’s butterflies
In a new book, a father and daughter scientist duo explore the 100-million-year history of butterflies. From their inauspicious origin…
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Millennia-old mystery about insects and light at night gets a new explanation
At night in the Costa Rican cloud forest, Yash Sondhi and a small team of international scientists switched on a…
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Florida wildflowers and pollinators get a boost with two grants
The Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History was recently awarded two grants to help support pollinators in…
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Akito Kawahara named director of McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
The Florida Museum of Natural History has named Akito Kawahara as the new director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera…
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