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Thomas Emmel

Portrait of a researcher in a Florida Museum collection

Our People

Butterfly expert Thomas Emmel has died

May 29, 2018

The Florida Museum is shocked and saddened by the passing of Thomas Emmel, our colleague and friend, who died over…Read More

orange butterflies

Profiles

40 years of friendship, 70,000 specimens: Amateur entomologists donate lifetimes’ worth of butterflies and moths

May 21, 2018

As a 4-year-old, butterfly net in hand, Ed Knudson set out to catch insects in his neighborhood. Little did he…Read More

Portrait of a researcher in a Florida Museum collection

Life on Earth

New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected

April 5, 2018

In 1959, a then-teenage lepidopterist Thomas Emmel collected 13 fawn-colored butterflies in the highlands of Mexico. Nearly 60 years later,…Read More

specimens of the Large Copper butterfly from England

Collections

Donation of Lepidoptera collection will boost biodiversity research

October 13, 2009

A gift of more than 2 million butterfly and moth specimens to the University of Florida contains hundreds and possibly…Read More

Monarchs in flight

Life on Earth

The astonishing Monarch

May 1, 2005

Imagine walking into a towering cathedral draped with million-faceted curtains of orange-gold and black, shimmering in the morning sunlight. Then…Read More

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