Tiger Beetles: Fierce Hunters, Fast Movers

Tiger beetles look like jewels and can smell like bubblegum. What’s not to love? Ph.D. student Harlan Gough of the Kawahara Lab at the Florida Museum Natural History shows us the world of tiger beetles -- fierce hunters and fast movers.
Story:
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/tiger-beetles-fierce-hunters-fast-movers/

Read Harlan Gough’s study of the molecular phylogeny of tiger beetles:
https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12324

Learn more about the Kawahara Lab:
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/kawahara/

Featuring Harlan Gough
Produced by Rose Roberts
Additional footage courtesy of Harlan Gough, The Cornell Chronicle, Jesse Barber and Juliette Rubin of the Barber Lab at Boise State University

Music: “Rain Drops” by JewelBeat.
“Perspectives,” “Tugboat Theme” and “Slider” by Blue Dot Sessions. Licensed via Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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More from the Florida Museum of Natural History:
- Museum and research news https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/
- Houses of silk, poop and plants: Meet the sack-bearer moths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfUV-tRnZlA

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