Biodiversity Spotlight: September 2021
Dead Leaf Butterfly! (Kallima inachus)
Contributed by: Lauren Bradley
Autumn is right around the corner, and what a beautiful season it is! Here in Florida, we see the occasional red or yellow leaf during the autumn months, but really, all we can hope for is some cooler weather, and even that isn’t guaranteed. The Kallima inachus seems to agree with us humans in admiring the beauty of autumn, as they have evolved to imitate dead leaves! (Thus giving them their common name, the dead leaf butterfly).
Contributed by: Molly Phillips, iDigBio's Education, Outreach & Diversity Coordinator
The oldest specimen in the 
by Deborah Paul, Libby Ellwood, Christina Alba, Larry Page
From the Darwin Core Hour Team.
Data curation profiles (DCPs). DCPs give scientists, researchers, and data managers an enhanced and detailed understanding of the “data story” from the perspective of the data. A DCP “captures requirements for specific data generated by researchers articulated by the researchers themselves” (
The Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections Annual Summit, hosted by iDigBio, took place in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at 
iDigBio had a blast at 
For the third straight year, iDigBio hosted a full-day workshop on research methods using digitized herbarium specimen data at the annual Botany conference (
Specimens collected in Nicaragua by American mycologist Charles Leonard Smith in the late 19th century were thought to have been lost for over 100 years.Through 
Who could resist a conference where the mascot is a giant bright red Rafflesia flower, where bagpipes serenade the participants, and kilt-wearing and traditional folk dancing are encouraged, along with stimulating science? The 
The 
UPDATE: Wiki in development 
For optimum results, digitization of collections needs to go faster, right? Of course, this includes addressing data quality and completeness.
Conservation. Endangered and rare species. Species distribution maps. Habitat and landscape integrity analysis. Observational data.
iDigBio's Jillian Goodwin and Molly Phillips traveled to St. Marks, Florida, to participate in the 
During its inaugural year, the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event, 
Gehen Sie zu der SPNHC 2016 Konferenz? Are you going to the Society for Preservation of Natural History Collection's (SPNHC) 2016 Conference? It's in Berlin this year, from June 20 - 25, 2016.
venues, from middle-school and undergraduate science classrooms to county libraries to museums, universities, and botanical gardens, such as the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural H
Katja Seltmann (TTD-TCN), Deb Paul, Alex Thompson, and Matt Collins Eds.
On July 26, 2015, iDigBio hosted an all-day 
eb Paul, Cathy Bester, and Molly Phillips) had a fun and productive time staffing the iDigBio exhibit at the 95th Annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, June 12-15, 2015. We set up the 10’ exhibit with the TV displaying the 
Accessible Through New and Innovative Approaches and Partnerships”.
Georeferencing Procedure Outline - a guest blog by Michael Yost, 
-Guest blog enthusiastically provided by course participant 
Nearly 200 collections professionals attended this year’s
About 50 undergraduates and recent graduates attended the 
There may be no place better than the University of Texas to conduct a broad-based paleo imaging workshop. This certainly seemed the consensus the week of 29 April at the co-sponsored iDigBio and Jackson School of Geosciences imaging event.
Fifteen undergraduate students from seven Florida colleges and universities converged on the Florida Museum of Natural History April 17-19 for an all-expense-paid opportunity to shadow museum professionals and explore careers in the biological sciences.
Registration for the 2013 meeting of the 
