Research News
Chasing the rare arogos skipper butterfly from Florida fields to lab
With their triangular shape and golden-orange wings, the eastern arogos skipper (Atrytone arogos arogos) butterflies seemed to wave down the…
The Florida Museum at Entomology 2025
Once a year, thousands of people from dozens of countries all converge on one city to share the latest news…
The frosted elfin butterfly returns home to North Florida
The spring sun glinted off the cars rolling through Ichetucknee Springs State Park, but the caravan wasn’t headed to the…
News & Media Coverage
Spotlight on mentions of our work in other news outlets:
- Endangered Schaus Butterflies Having Their Best Season In Decades – WMFE (Central Florida Public Media) 7/14/21
- What’s Growing On: FDOT pairs with the Florida Museum to increase pollinators – WCJB TV20 Published 7/22/21
- UF project hopes to ‘certify’ appropriate plants as wildlife-friendly – IFAS 7/17/21
- Florida scientists find rare bee species in new locations – WSVN News 7 Miami 6/5/21
- Raise a Glass to Butterflies – Newswise 10/21/21
- Researchers help rare butterfly take flight in Florida Keys – Associated Press 7/27/18
- Butterflies in the storm – bioGraphic 7/18/18
- Butterflies Were Tenderly Saved Before Hurricane Irma Hit – BuzzFeedNews 9/10/17
Museum blogs
The Daniels Lab collaborates with colleagues here at the Florida Museum to communicate at off-site and outreach events. Here are some mentions from across the Museum’s website:
We’ve been teaming up with First Magnitude Brewing Co. for a few years on this fabulous festival to support pollinator…
Black Witch Beer: Halloween at the brewery
Continuing their strong tradition of inspiring people to learn about butterfly conservation, our Daniels Lab team hosted a Halloween-themed beer…
Wildflowers: Music in the meadow
Standing in the Florida Museum’s backyard, eyes closed, face turned to the sunlight, you can hear a hushed murmur of…
Persevering for Monarch Habitat Restoration
Researchers focusing on conservation and species restoration have to be fairly tenacious, and our biologist Jaret Daniels is no exception.…
Friends, beer and . . . butterflies? Is this how we do conservation now? Our scientists have worked hard to…
In April 2020, our Daniels Lab team and First Magnitude released its 9th beer celebrating an imperiled Florida butterfly, this time…
Florida White Florida Wit Beer
On November 15, 2019, our Daniels Lab team and First Magnitude Brewing Company celebrated the launch of a Belgian witbier…
The tiny brown frosted elfin butterfly might seem small and unimportant, but this at-risk species contributed to its own conservation…
The Atala is a small, velvety-black butterfly native to southeastern Florida. It was once very common in our state but…
The Florida Museum and First Magnitude Brewing celebrated the release of a new beer on March 30, 2018. Bartram’s Blonde…