Word: lepidoptera
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...small mounting of butterflies—along with an accompanying collection of several larger mountings found throughout the house—provides an appropriate welcome to Berry and Pierce’s home; as the Curator of Lepidoptera in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, Pierce’s job is to know moths and butterflies. Across the hall hangs an eBay triumph of which Berry is particularly proud: a framed letter written by British evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace, whose work preceded Darwin’s but has largely gone unnoticed...
...passion for the little winged creatures took her to Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Princeton. And now, the 35-year-old biologist has returned to Cambridge, not only as Harvard's first-ever Hessell Professor of Biology's, but also as the Museum of Comparative Biology's curator of Lepidoptera...
...passion for the little winged creatures took her to Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Princeton. And now, the 35-year-old biologist has returned to Cambridge, not only as Harvard's first-ever Hessell Professor of Biology, but also as the Museum of Comparative Biology's curator of Lepidoptera...
...winged world during graduate school at the University of Massachusetts. She had been interested in entomology as an undergraduate at Smith, and decided to pursue her inclination to research after realizing that the life of a vet or an M.D. was not for her. She solidified her interest in lepidoptera during grad school where she could do field work on the Baltimore checkerspots...
Bowers divides her time between teaching, research and caring for the Museum of Comparative Zoology's lepidoptera's collection, the largest university collection in the world with 6 million insect specimens. The collection needs constant revision since scientists all over the world request samples of different species. The assistant professor taught two courses this past year in insect biology, in addition to enlarging her own personal butterfly collection. One of her favorite butterfly-related activities is feeding her checkerspots, because she can watch their abdomens slowly fill up with the sugar solution that makes up their daily meal...