A kaleidoscope of colors, a dance of delicate wings. 🦋 The butterfly rainforest is a world where nature's artistry is on full display.

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Exploring the wonders of the past at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville—where fossils, butterflies, and ancient stories come alive 🦋🦖📚
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#fossilfriday a lower jaw of the hornless rhino Aphelops mutilus. On display at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.

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Protecting rare butterflies of Florida’s pine flats and prairies The Loammi skipper (Atrytonopsis loammi) is a small, wedge-shaped butterfly with stubby antennas and bulbous black eyes in a fuzzy face. It once lived throughout a good deal of the Southeastern U.S. b...

Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾