The East Texas Natural History Collection

The East Texas Natural History Collection updated their address.

The East Texas Natural History Collection updated their address.

How Insects and Bacteria Can Solve Murder Mysteries

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How Insects and Bacteria Can Solve Murder Mysteries For science!

How Insects and Bacteria Can Solve Murder Mysteries

This is so exciting - a chance to help fund and ensure the future of undergraduate research at Sam Houston State. These students and this cause are so worthwhile.
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How Insects and Bacteria Can Solve Murder Mysteries For science!

The Article has been Published!

Our article was published today! Please feel free to review this Lab Note.
This was a crowd funded research effort that met it published goal of a publication in an Open Access Journal.

The Article has been Published! I was notified this morning by the editors of The Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies [LINK] that our article "Biogeography of a disjunct population of Hemileuca peigleri (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) in the coastal bend of Texas" - has been published. I had to let that sink in! ...

IMPORTANT Progress Update!!!!

We have just posted an important status update on our Project at Experiment.com. Please take a little time to read it.

https://experiment.com/u/HDeLag

You really should strongly consider becoming a backer for some of the amazing projects that are being funded there!!!!

IMPORTANT Progress Update!!!! Here is our latest progress update on this important 11 year study. Sand Castle Pond -- December 2015 - Powderhorn Ranch Conservation Area by Robert J. Nuelle, Jr. I would like to report some progress on our push to get our results published. Firstly, to those of you who have never published...

Volume 3 Issue 4F | Zoology Journal | Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies

Volume 3 Issue 4F | Zoology Journal | Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies Zoology Journal, Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, Volume 3 Issue 4F 2015

SUCCESS -- Thanks to you we got funded!

Our Project has completed the Fund Raising Stage ( we made our target) now we will begin to use that funding to complete and extend the studies! Be sure to visit and read about the last 6 weeks!

SUCCESS -- Thanks to you we got funded! Next Steps: That was an amazing 6 weeks and I greatly appreciate everything to get this project funded. The support of our great backers means further progress on this project. We have big plans to make maximum advantage of the funding to ensure that we will have what is needed to complete our...

Collateral Insight - Looking beyond the Moth

Today is the final day -- here is a new lab note talking about how far we have come. Please enjoy.

Collateral Insight - Looking beyond the Moth Aristotle said it best "The more you know, the more you know you don't know". As we have progressed in this study we have accelerated our learning. We have progressed from being casual observers with a sense of wonder in 2005 to be on the ground, involved and looking beyond the moth in 2015....

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

UPDATE:
We are nearly at 1,000.00 dollars in contributions and there are only 2 days left in our Experiment.com Crowd Funding Project and we have some big news!!!

An anonymous donor has come forward and offered to match Dollar for Dollar all new contributions to the site during the final days!!!!

Now every contribution counts for double and with this boost we have our best shot to hit our target - It is now well within our reach!

This is an unexpected opportunity to accomplish some amazing goals:

You can read more about this project here:

https://www.experiment.com/BuckMoth

Thank you all so much! We appreciate your assistance.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

The Buck Moth Hiding in plain sight

The Buck Moth Hiding in plain sight Hemileuca peigleri ova rings on Quercus minima A little background about this moth. Mr. Brush Freeman, a professional field biologist posted an innocuous little note to the Leps List ListServ in December of 2003 - announcing that there were Buckmoths flying in Port O'Connor. In December of...

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

Todays' update will focus on the scope of this research project. We are trying to complete our documentation of this moth's life cycle (Paper 1). We are also looking at the impact that it has on the ecosystem and how it survives in the coastal climate (Paper 2). It has been previously known from the Edwards Plateau (think Texas Hill Country around San Antonio and north) where everything is completely different - different trees, different soil, different weather, etc. Finally we need to figure out HOW & WHEN this moth got to Calhoun County. Was it once one long population that stretched from central Texas to the coast? Did some external factor (weather, mankind, etc.) transport one adult female from one site to start the other (Paper 3).
All of this is so worthy of study -- our habitat studies will help the managers of the property in Calhoun County to make decisions about how to manage the property. Help us finish these studies!

Share this post -- Comment on it and encourage others to get involved --
Please consider becoming a backer -- even a few dollars will help.

https://www.experiment.com/BuckMoth

Thank you

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

4 Days Left!!!!!! -- To all of you following our Powderhorn Ranch Crowd Funding Project we have 4 days left -- now is the time for a final push! Please visit the project - read about this incredible piece of coastal forest and help us to help the folks who will be managing it to make the right decisions in the near term -- preserving the Oaks helps the Moth and the habitat will mean so much to the area!!!

So please contribute to the project -- become a backer -- every dollar helps!!! Share this post on our Facebook -- talk it up among your circles on Google+.

We need you! And thank you so very much

https://www.experiment.com/BuckMoth

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

Discover Life

Discover Life An interactive encyclopedia about the taxonomy, natural history, distribution, abundance & ecology of species. Includes identification guides, maps & tools to study nature.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

Please visit our page and join in the efforts

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

The Nature of Field Research

The Nature of Field Research Field research - the kind that we are doing is all about questions and answers. We observe a wonderful natural phenomenon -- the flight of a gorgeous black and white moth in the cold month of December along the Texas coast -- and then we start wondering: What moth is it? How is it flying in...

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

The Future of this research

The Future of this research In the process of this study, begun in 2005, we have made over a dozen trips to Calhoun County to study the moth. Our expeditions were restricted to the roadsides of the county because we had no access to its habitat, mostly privately held. We watched through high fences as eh moths carried...

The Powderhorn Ranch

The Powderhorn Ranch We have been so fortunate to make 3 trips now to the Powderhorn Ranch since it has been purchased by The Nature Conservancy and Texas Parks and Wildlife. Through an introduction made by Petra Hockey - Calhoun county resident and amazing naturalist we have been granted permission to conduct our...

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

About the idea of Crowd Funding. The current state of affairs in science is pretty bleak, research money is so hard to come by. State and Government sources are increasingly challenged and much needed basic research goes by the wayside. Crowd Funding is the way that scientists can draw upon thousands of willing individuals to get their basic needs met. There are two equally important components.

1. Outreach - sharing these posts and talking about them is the easiest way to help - it brings new eyeballs to the site and that exposure generates opportunity. So please share this post - send links to your friends -- help us spread the word.

2. Participation - contributing is key. If we get a great response (see point 1) then even a a few dollars will make a huge difference. You see if 1000 people each backed us with 3.00 we would be at goal.

Thank you for your assistance and check in to morrow - we will be posting a new lab note.

https://www.experiment.com/BuckMoth

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

Five days into the crowd funding initiative and we are 13% of the way towards goal. At this point we are focusing on getting exposure for the project - so please re-share our link and come visit the project -- leave us a comment or please become a part of this great effort to understand an amazing moth.

https://www.experiment.com/BuckMoth

Thank you very much!

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

Hello and welcome to Day 2 of our crowd funding project. We have had such an amazing kick off day - 70 Page views and 12% of our target raised! Better than we had hoped, by far. Thank you to everyone who is helping. Please share this post on your Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ - help spread the word. Likes and shares get the word out!

We will be posting a new lab note tomorrow about the amazing caterpillars from Powderhorn ranch that we are rearing.

https://experiment.com/buckmoth

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem? Make science go faster. Help us discover more by funding research in curing cancer, space exploration, and dinosaurs.

East Texas Natural History Collection An exciting opportunity to help fund some important research

Today we are launching our Project at Experiment.com

Visit the Project: http://www.experiment.com/BuckMoth

We have been studying a population of magnificent black and white Buck Moths in Calhoun County since 2003 when they were first brought to our attention by 2 local naturalists - Brush Freeman and Petra Hockey. In October of 2014, we were thrilled to learn that The Powderhorn Ranch - a 17,351 acre tract of land in Calhoun County, Texas was acquired by The Nature Conservancy and Texas Parks and Wildlife. This property is an amazing and unique coastal oak habitat with grassy prairies, salt marshes and thousands of acres of low oak mottes.

The Nature Conservancy has recently granted us access to this property to continue our studies but we need your help to ensure that we have the necessary resources to complete what we have started.

How you can help:

1) Please visit our project and consider becoming a backer.
2) If you support this science please share it on Facebook, iNaturalist,
LinkedIn, Twitter and any other social media site.
3) We would love to have your endorsement.

We have 30 days from today to complete our fundraising and the key to our success is exposure so please spread the word.

We thank you so much for your time and look forward to your feedback!

Dr. Will Godwin, Robert J. Nuelle, Jr. , Robert Nuelle, III

http://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-News+Local/182145/summer-science-institute-puts-students-in-touch-with-

See our latest coverage in the Tyler Morning Telegraph - hanks to Faith Harper for a great article - great students and a wonderful program.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-News+Local/182145/summer-science-institute-puts-students-in-touch-with-

Fishes of Texas -

The Fishes of Texas Project is another amazing resources by our friends down at UT - Dr. Dean Hendrickson and his group. A really cool website.

http://www.fishesoftexas.org/about

Fishes of Texas -

Texas Biodiversity Center

Just discovered the Texas Natural History Collections page - run by Dr. Dean Hendrickson - a Research Associate and friend here at the ETNHC. Give them a visit and a Like or two!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-Natural-History-Collections/30600125266

Texas Biodiversity Center The UT Biodiversity Center supports research, education, and outreach about Earth's biodiversity.

Beautiful artwork by Bart Soutendijk - Artist exhibiting at the October 20, event.