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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 

TDWG 2021, the annual conference of Biodiversity Information Standards, will be held virtually October 18-22, 2021, hosted by the University of Florida.  The theme of this year’s conference, Connecting the world of biodiversity data:  standards uniting people, processes, and tools, will build on lessons learned during the preceding 18 months of virtual interaction and collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic.  TDWG 2021 will be held on the virtual platform Whova, and the schedule will include keynote lectures, symposia, workshops, demos, contribut

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The Guatemala Biodiversity Portal, a national digitization effort using Symbiota

Contributed by Samanta Orellana

Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Weinell, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum

Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love

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Article by: Caitlin J.Campbell, Graduate Assistant at the UF Department of Biology