Researchers recently discovered what was thought to be a distinct species of butterfly is actually the female of a species known to science for more than a cent...
When thinking of mimicry, most people picture two things that look identical, with little difference in pattern or color.
In nature, the mimicking of one bri...
Florida Museum researcher Keith Willmott and peers reclassified the genus Pteronymia in a new paper, adding six species for a total of 53, and studied the evolutionary history of the group.
Authors: Donna Lisa De-Silva, Luísa L. Mota, Nicolas Chaz...
Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have received a three-year, $458,104 National Science Foundation grant to research a common, but often misidentifie...
This image shows four different Neotropical caterpillar species from eastern Ecuador that have adapted the same warning color, a mimicry technique, to deter pr...
Florida Museum of Natural History Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera Keith Willmott recently received the 2009 Jack Wessel Excellence Award for Assistant Professors.
The award, given to 10 individuals at the University of Florida, recognizes out...
It’s a mammoth job, setting out to document all the butterflies of South America’s tropical Andean cordillera — a 3,000-mile swath of the planet crenulated into...
