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New butterfly evolutionary study is out as preprint! 2244 spp sequenced for 391 genes. Butterflies likely originated in what is now Americas, ~100 million years ago. Research led @FloridaMuseum #McGuireCenter. Global study w/87 scientists from 28 countries tinyurl.com/7ra5uaba
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Happy #NationalMothWeek! There are >150,000 species of #moths in the world and many of them are beautiful, important to us + our ecosystem, yet declining. Help save moths by dimming/turning off exterior lights this week. One of the largest is Atlas moth, from SE Asia! @Moth_Week
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Very excited to find this awesome rhinoceros beetle! Check out the horns! #Ecuador Golofa sp.
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New paper is out! By @anapscarvalho and others - new phylogeny of butterfly family Pieridae (whites and sulphurs) showing diversification is correlated with global temperature @FloridaMuseum biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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日本鱗翅学会で基調演説を行います！テーマは「3 億年の昼と夜を分けた鱗翅目昆虫の進化」。コウモリと蛾の超音波の進化についても話します。10/29(土) 〜15:30、国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター。内容はこちら: brh.co.jp/publication/jo… lepi-jp.org/68/
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A really good article that came out today. #Insects are important and many are disappearing from Earth. What should we do? graphics.reuters.com/GLOBAL-ENVIRON…
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とても綺麗な日中飛ぶヒトリガ。メキシコの高山でしか見られない。Princely Tiger moth, Chrysocalis prinicpalis (Arctiinae).
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Our study on #butterfly #evolution, #hostplants & #ranges is now formally out! We built a phylogeny of 2000 sp and found butterflies originated in N. America 100M years ago, likely fed on legumes. ~100 scientists from 28 countries contributed. Thanks all! nature.com/articles/s4155…
Professor & Curator of Moths & Butterflies @UF | #Insects | #InsectDecline | @TEDx |フロリダ大学教授 | 昆虫学者 | @FloridaMuseum | PI @KawaharaLab | 河原章人 | he/him