ButterflyNet

What kind of butterfly is that? Let's find out! youtube.com/watch?v=jQdVOz…

Happy to see coverage of @ButterflyNetNSF teams work in Indian newspaper "A new comprehensive evolutionary tree of butterflies published" thehindu.com/sci-tech/scien… [doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…]

But they're not stopping there. As part of the #NSFFunded @ButterflyNetNSF project, the team aims to make an evolutionary tree that encompasses all 18,800 described species of butterflies & their associated data: butterflynet.org

Hot of the web press - A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies cell.com/current-biolog… Espeland Breinholt Willmott @AndyBugGuy Vila @EmmanuelTouss1 @SarahCMaunsell Aduse-Poku Talavera Eastwood @majarzyna Guralnick Lohman Pierce @akito_kawahara

The Apefly (Spalgis epeus), is a small butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or the blues. It gets its common name due to resemblance of the pupa to face of Ape. The caterpillars feed on scale insects. More pictures myencounterswithnature.blogspot.com/2008/01/apefly…

Not a bad place for collecting butterflies

Did you know that the majority of Lepidoptera superfamilies lack a genome? Read the review here - Lepidoptera genomes: current knowledge, gaps and future directions authors.elsevier.com/c/1WMQ7_oMeKla… @akito_kawahara

Florida's most #endangered #butterfly may not have survived Hurricane Irma tampabay.com/news/environme…

Have you ever wondered where butterflies sleep at night? This Mexican Urbanus skipper found a cool spot upside down #Querétaro #siesta

Mimicry in butterflies: co-option and a bag of magnificent developmental genetic tricks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/expor… #ButterflyIndia

The Book of Caterpillars: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from aroun... amazon.com/dp/022628736X/… via @amazon 650 p. of caterpillars!

Taking the time to film a cool Eudaminae skipper on UF campus. Urbanus proteus slow-mo flight

Loved these photos of White Dragontail (Lamproptera curius) inaturalist.org/observations/4… by alexslwong33 @butterfly_india @DiversityIndia

A beautiful pupa of the #RedAdmiral 🦋 found a few days ago near #Bern #Switzerland. Golden speckles shimmering in the #October sun!

Biology of Butterflies 2018 is on my next years wishlist

Q: Hey what are you doing right now? A: Nothing, just coffee puddling. #ButterflyPeople @butterfly_india @ButterflyNetNSF

Meet (most of) the @ButterflyNetNSF team! #Traits #Phylogeny #Distributions #Outreach

Organizing BIG IDEAS and LOW-HANGING FRUIT with anonymous sticky notes @ButterflyNetNSF

@cgstorer updates the @ButterflyNetNSF team on molecular sequencing progress for building an all-butterfly phylogeny. Lots done, lots to go!