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Ryan St Laurent

Moth rests on leaf.

Evolution

Moths may use disco gene to regulate day/night cycles

August 28, 2024

How does one species become two? If you’re a biologist, that’s a loaded question. The consensus is that, in most…
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Yellow orange and black butterfly specimen set again a line illustration of the tree of life

Evolution

Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America

May 15, 2023

About 100 million years ago, a group of trendsetting moths started flying during the day rather than at night, taking…
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Awards & Honors

Austin, Bullen 2020 student research award winners named

May 5, 2020

The Florida Museum of Natural History and Florida Museum University Teaching Committee recently announced the winners of the 2020 Austin…
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drawer of sack-bearer moth specimens

Features

Houses of silk, poop and plants: Meet the sack-bearer moths

May 31, 2018

Ryan St Laurent, a doctoral student at the Florida Museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, studies an obscure, strange…
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