Check out these cats!! Banded Sphinx moth. Two caterpillar color morphs! These are big bois! #moth #hawkmoth Florida Museum

Thanks Deborah Matthews for sharing the caterpillars with me

Hawthorne, Florida 10/18/22

“Butterfly Moths” – McGuire Center floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2…

The osmeterium is an eversible gland in the prothorax of swallowtail caterpillars. When disturbed, caterpillars evert this forked gland which emits a foul smelling secretion to ward off predators. Giant Swallowtail, Hawthorne, FL 11/11/2022.

Student Spotlight 🔦 Riley Gott Meet Riley J. Gott, studying taxonomy & systematics of the primarily Neotropical butterfly genera Dalla, Ladda, and Piruna (family Hesperiidae) both here at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity and at UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2…

Science in Action 🦋 Our McGuire Center hosted two graduate students studying the mimicry complex involving the Pipevine Swallowtail, including collecting data on light reflected from certain areas of the wings by using a spectrophotometer: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2…

Atlides halesus, Micanopy, Florida 3-11-202

Lepidoptera Type Collection – McGuire Center floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2…

Golden-winged Skimmer UF DeLuca Preserve 20 May 2023.

Student Spotlight: Sarah Steele Cabrera ⁦Sarah Steele Cabrera⁩ - McGuire Center News floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2…

Student Spotlight: Jacob Bethin – McGuire Center floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2…

Sunspots are usually annoying in images. In this case the spot shows the eclipse much better and in blue. Gainesville, Florida 3pm. iphone 11.

American Lady, Micanopy, Florida 5-7-2024.

Remembering Florida Museum curator Jacqueline Miller – Research News floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/rememb…

Don’t panic - @jeh8i8 is here! We’re settling in for story time now with examples of using collections to quell public fears of insect pests. One of those characters is the moth Palpita persimilis (Crambidae). #ECN2024

The McGuire Center houses 20,000+ genitalia slides in the collection! Megan Neal takes us through the microscopic digitization process & the tools used to capture & edit these high-resolution images. 📸 Read more in this blog post on dissection: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2… #ECN2024