News Articles
Published: 08-06-2020
Written by: Alnycea Blackwell and Cat Chapman
What has great vision, jumps, dances and can kill prey larger than their own size? The jumping spider, of course. Jumping spiders (family Salticidae) are known for their jumping abilities. They use this skill to capture prey. They locate prey, stretch out their legs and propel themselves towards the meal, which is usually tiny bugs...
Published: 08-06-2020
In our newest series, "Scientist in the Spotlight" we’ll sit down with the ADBC (Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections) program's best and brightest to learn more about what makes them tick. This month, we had a chance to speak with Jennifer Zaspel. She is the associate curator, head of zoology and director of Puelicher Butterfly Wing at the...
Published: 07-08-2020
For the third year in a row, SPNHC (Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections), iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections), BLUE (Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Literacy), and QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) were excited to facilitate the Educational Materials Share Session on June 11 as part of the first ever entirely virtual...
Published: 07-06-2020
Article by: Caitlin J.Campbell, Graduate Assistant at the UF Department of Biology
When you think of animal migration, you might envision vast herds of caribou or wildebeest trekking through expansive taiga or savannahs; or perhaps small songbirds or butterflies carried by winds across broad stretches of the earth. It may surprise you that some of the most numerous and...
Published: 07-06-2020
The 4th Annual Digital Data Conference: Harnessing the Data Revolution and Amplifying Collections with Biodiversity Information Science was originally scheduled to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Due to COVID-19, the conference was reformatted to a virtual event still hosted by Indiana University. The virtual event proved successful with 494 registrants and an additional 101...
Published: 06-30-2020
In our newest series, "Scientist in the Spotlight" we’ll sit down with the ADBC (Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections) program's best and brightest to learn more about what makes them tick. And who better to start this series than Lisa White, a geologist, Director of Education and Outreach at the University of California Museum of Paleontology and...
Published: 06-29-2020
Contributed by: Aaron Goodman, Graduate Student Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences.
One of the most ecologically and geologically unique areas on earth is the Baja California Peninsula. Baja California is considered a biodiversity hotspot, possessing high species richness, endemism, and threatened species. The peninsula has undergone a unique geological history...
Published: 06-09-2020
The iDigBio team is in full agreement with the recent statements made by the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Florida Museum in support of racial justice and condemning the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and countless others.
Our project feels strongly that diversity is a strength and that we all have work to do to...
Published: 06-05-2020
Article by: Zoliswa Nhleko, PhD candidate at the UF School of Natural Resources and Enviroment
White rhinos were formerly abundant in the Kruger National Park (KNP) till the 19th century when they...
Published: 06-04-2020
Article by: Zoliswa Nhleko, PhD candidate at the UF School of Natural Resources and Environment
There are two species of rhinos that inhabit Africa: the white rhino and black rhino. How the white rhino got its name is uncertain. There is one popular story that early dutch settlers referred to it as, wijde, Dutch for “wide,” which might have been because of their wide lip. The...