For hundreds of years, butterfly collecting has often inspired a special kind of fanaticism, spurring lengthy expeditions, sparking rivalries and prompting some...
Butterflies fly during the day while moths travel at night – or so you might think. In reality, their behavior is much more complicated.
A new Florida Museum...
The relentless roar of natural gas compressors influences the numbers of insects and spiders nearby, triggering decreases in many types of arthropods sensitive ...
Lab technicians instrumental in daily research operations
As a vegan and animal lover, lab technician Samantha Epstein had always envisioned a future working w...
A new study shows hawkmoths, including this species belonging to the subtribe choerocampine, produces ultrasound as a defense mechanism against bats. Florida M...
In the cover of night, an unseen war between bats and moths has been raging for 60 million years—and a new study suggests the insects have evolved long tails as...
A new study involving more than 100 researchers from 10 countries, including the Florida Museum of Natural History, has reconstructed the insect tree of life an...
Assistant curator of Lepidoptera Akito Kawahara led a yearlong study that revealed monumental discoveries about the evolutionary history of butterflies and mot...
A high school student working in the Florida Museum of Natural History McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity recently received a $2,000 Mu Alpha Theta...
The Philodoria marginestrigata moth, pictured with a dime for reference, feeds during its larval stage within the leaf tissue of 12 families of native Hawaiian...
