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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…
These plants evolved in Florida millions of years ago. They may be gone in decades.
Scrub mints are among the most endangered plants you’ve probably never heard of. More than half of the 24 species…
Moths big and small are vanishing from southern U.S. cities
Insects of all stripes are in the midst of a vanishing act, a catastrophic sleight-of-hand occurring so rapidly that scientists…
Florida Museum curators David Blackburn and Robert Guralnick elected 2023 AAAS fellows
Two faculty members at the Florida Museum of Natural History have been elected as 2024 fellows of the American Association…
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…
Maria Vallejo receives Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Academic Women
María Vallejo-Pareja, a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, has won an Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for…