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Celebrate Creepy Crawlers this Halloween and Pledge to Protect the Insects

Oct 30, 2020

This year, embrace the creepy in creepy crawlers by focusing your Halloween festivities on insects!

students collecting ants outside

Ant-y Adventures with Alachua and Palm Beach County Students

Mar 25, 2020

Have you seen this ant? If so, the Lucky lab wants to know!

students viewing collection tray of ants

Students Learn About the Importance of Ants

Sep 24, 2019

On Tuesday, September 24th, Susan Shrum’s 6th grade class was visited by ant scientist, Jacob Hornfeldt.

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TESI Grant Recipients Raise Awareness about Invasive Species While Inspiring a Love for Ants

Jul 30, 2019

Ants offer a window into the scale of the invasive species problem and Florida hosts 12 of the worst invasive ant species worldwide.

Andrea Lucky

Andrea Lucky Employs Ants to Teach Public about Invasive Species

Apr 23, 2019

Citizen scientists can help collect data for Lucky’s School of Ants program, which displays exotic ant species via an interactive map.

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