Have you ever wanted to see millions on monarchs at their overwintering grounds in Mexico? I'll be leading a trip February 11-16. After going last year with @Dr_Akito, I can safely say it is an incredible and bucket-list worthy experience! Details: https://t.co/VCXJ5xONfa

Hey, we are renewing our website and planning a lot of great activities with the leadership of @abby_uehling @FloridaMuseum This Saturday our first Nature walk of the semester, lead by @swamphiker You can read more about it in our blog! #NatureWalks

Live from a drought in Chicagoland. Here are our lawn plots, compared to clover, prairie and sedge plots in our lawn alternative treatments at @chicagobotanic

Student Spotlight 🔦 Sarah Steele Cabrera As a Ph.D. student, @swamphiker is interested in the growing field of conservation genetics which deals with genetic factors related to population viability, connectivity & extinction. More from our McGuire Center: https://t.co/IeIcQ9eFq0

🚨🚨NEW PAPER: Using ultraviolet torch surveys at night as a method for surveying one of the UK’s rarest butterflies – The Black Hairstreak 🚨🚨 https://t.co/FigFKKuCJk @SussexUni @SussexLifeSci @savebutterflies @sbsaville @InsectDiversity 🧵(1/8)

Join the McGuire Center @FloridaMuseum tomorrow (March 28) at 12pm ET for a seminar presented by members of the International Association of Butterfly Exhibitors and Suppliers. All are welcome to join in person or via Zoom! https://t.co/DCr9Zud7Lx

I am so thrilled to announce that our paper “Population Genetic Structure of a Rare Butterfly in a Fragmented South Florida Ecosystem” is out! With wonderful colleagues @kkbugtime, Emily Heffernan, Jaret Daniels, Mary R. Truglio and @swamphiker. A 🧵:

A drawer of specimens of the Zestos skipper (Epargyreis zesto). Likely extirpated from Florida, last seen here in 2004. From the McGuire Center Collection @FloridaMuseum

White-letter Hairstreak eggs have been hatching here in Exmouth. Caterpillars disappearing into Elm buds to feed for a few months. @savebutterflies @BCDevon @ExmouthWildlife @ExmouthTrees

Is finding a steamy pile of bedazzled skunk poo like this on your bucket list? That’s the shimmering, metallic exoskeletons of fiery searcher beetles in there. Seen just a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border on the San Pedro River in Arizona. https://t.co/j419WuF58u

Tomorrow (Feb 21) at 12pm ET, join the McGuire Center @FloridaMuseum for a seminar by Felix Sperling: "The species problem: Is it one butterfly species or two?". Join us in Zoom or in-person: https://t.co/DCr9ZudFB5 All are welcome! 🦋🐛🦋

Perfect camping weather in a beautiful pine flatwoods @SJRWMD

Lurking Level: 10 There's a dolomedes fishing spider somewhere in there 2/18/23. N. Florida

Tip of the iceberg of the diversity of myrmecophiles, ie ant-loving creatures lives with ants, although often in a toxic relationship… #insect #InsectThursday #ant #Entomology #sciart #DigitalArtist #ArtistOnTwitter #illustraion

Spectacular overwintering monarchs on a sunny day 🦋🦋🦋

Happy Valentine's Day! 🦋💕 Duas mariposas Copaxa decrescens namorando 🤭 🗺 Serra do Japi, Jundiaí, SP 📸 @juniayoc 🆔️ @Jhonatan_xpp #happyvalentinesday #valentinesday #serradojapi #mataatlantica #atlanticforest #saturniidae #lepidoptera

Fascinating mystery unfolding on Reddit: some poster from Australia discovered a pile of dead spiders, all different kinds, had appeared overnight under their dining room table.

Join the McGuire Center for #Lepidoptera & Biodiversity tomorrow (7 Feb) at 12pm ET for a seminar by Christopher Lawrence: "Making models and mining mimics". All are welcome to join us on Zoom! https://t.co/DCr9ZudFB5 #Heliconius 🦋🦋🦋

Correction: Seminar starts at 12pm ET, not 11am!

Join us TODAY (24 Jan) at 11am ET for the first McGuire Center seminar of 2023 by our own @Jose_IMartinez who will speak on his work on noctuids: "Where do subfamilies end and families begin?". Presented in person and on Zoom: https://t.co/DCr9ZudFB5