Sept 2 🐞 Exhibit last day! Science Up Close: Incredible Insects All about insects & entomology! Check our exhibit schedule for featured #UFBugs scientists in the live lab! In collab. with UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology 🐜🐜🐜 🪲 Exhibit info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/incre…

Exploring Museum Collections 🐚 Pretty Volute From corals to shrimps, browse fossil specimens in our invertebrate paleontology collection, with photos and maps: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/ga… Featured Species: Scaphella floridana Specimen: # UF 19331 Locality: Palm Beach Co., FL

Educator Resource 🐎 Fossil Horses Learn about paleontology and evolution by exploring the rich fossil record of horses! Horses originated in N. America >55 million years ago and roamed the continent before becoming extinct about 10,000 years ago. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fossil-horses/

Museum Resource 🐍 Florida Snake ID Guide Easy visual ID and searchable tool for learning about our state's snakes including habitat, range & diet. Featured: Rough Greensnake (Opheodrys aestivus) Full info and explore more: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-… NON-VENOMOUS

Toxic relationship 💃 Bella moths use a noxious plant toxin as an aromatic calling card, which they use to repel predators and attract mates. Scientists are getting closer to understanding how they do it. Story + study: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/bella-…

Museum Resource 🐟 Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida Explore our state's freshwater fish species and then see our collection records, photos and map. Shown: Striped Mullet (Mugil cephalus), marine invader to Florida's freshwaters 🔗 Info & browse: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/…

How does one species become two? Yash Sondhi (Yash Sondhi) and team caught evolution in the act when they observed differences in a gene that regulates circadian rhythms in a group of moths that have become separated in time. ☀️ 🌙 Story & study: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/moths-…

Thank you Jaret Daniels, Doug Jones & Florida Museum for hosting UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Dean’s Office field trip to see Incredible Insects.

Museum Resource 🏺 Caribbean ceramic ID Chicoid often has incising (w/ very clean, even lines) and adornos (which can be animalistic or humanoid). Effigy vessels are common. More: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ceramiclab/blo… Emily Kracht (@emweasels) created info cards for our Ceramic Tech Lab.

“The vine that ate the South!” Kudzu is one of the best-known weeds in the U.S.: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/five-f… While kudzu is not nearly as common or widespread in Florida as it is in neighboring states, it has been documented from over 40 Florida counties across the state.

Exhibit Spotlight 🐗 Florida Oligocene This #SciArt in our Florida Fossils exhibit helps to illustrate what Florida might have looked like as the sea levels dropped and animals migrated to this newly exposed land. 🗝️ Art + key and more: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blog/… #FossilFriday

#ICYMI Scientist Spotted 🎧 Our Steve Manchester was a guest on the In Defense of Plants podcast to talk about the walnut family, fossil seeds and his career as a paleobotanist: indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2024/8… 🌰🌰🐿️

Last chance to check out our special exhibit all about insects & entomology! Science Up Close: Incredible Insects Sept 2 🐞 Exhibit last day! Featuring live lab scientists in collaboration with UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology 🐜🐜🐜 #UFBugs 🪲 Exhibit info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/incre…

Sept 7 🌻 Our Daniels Lab scientists invite you to join them at the library to help support pollinator conservation. Pick up a free plant! Where: Millhopper Library Branch When: Sept 7, 12-3 p.m. What: One free plant until we're out! Full info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/plant-fo…

Online Exhibit 🌴 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Feature: Fossil Palm (Sabalites apalachicolensis) Fossil plants from Alum Bluff represent a time when Florida’s climate was warmer and sea level was higher. 🎧 More with Terry Lott: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/obje…

#ICYMI ☀️🌙 Rather than being separated by a physical barrier, members of a species can become separated in time. Scientists caught evolution in the act when they observed differences in a gene that regulates circadian rhythms in a group of moths. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/moths-…

Descended from the South American Saladoid people, the Taíno flourished across much of the Caribbean for ~1,000 years before the arrival of Europeans and were one of the region’s most developed cultures. Taíno origin story comes to life: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/taino-… @Ted_ED: 🎞️

Remembering Florida Museum curator Jacqueline Miller's life and legacy as a renown lepidopterist and a mentor. 🦋 floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/rememb… Alongside publishing numerous papers and books, Jackie is appreciated for drawing people into her world of butterfly scientific research.

Museum Resource 🐸🎶 Florida Frog Calls Learn to ID your croaking, grunting and singing amphibian neighbors by their unique sounds with our audio guide to Florida's frogs (including invasive Cuban treefrogs): floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-herps…

Exploring Museum Collections 🌿 Red Buckeye This small Florida-native tree has clusters of pretty trumpet flowers 👉 but the seed pods are poisonous to humans. More with UF/IFAS: gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/trees-a… FLAS Herbarium collection: Species: Aesculus pavia Specimen: # FLAS 224607