@GeoffGallice

Explorer. Naturalist. Explorer-naturalist.

 Gainesville, Florida
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Joined June 2014
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Geoff Gallice retweeted
NASA Earth
@NASAEarth28 Mar 2017
The @NASA_Rain satellites measured the heavy rainfall that caused extensive flooding and loss of life in Peru. go.nasa.gov/2nr4H7a
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Join us in Peru as we study butterfly ecology, methods in tropical field biology, and Amazon conservation! goo.gl/pxveO5 #ufbugs
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Just a few days left to register @Field_Projects Tropical Entomology course Dec 27-Jan 8 w @GeoffGallice & I in Peru fieldprojects.org/participat… – at Madre de Dios, Peru
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Interested in field biology? @GeoffGallice & I will teach 2 week Tropical Entomology course fieldprojects.org/participat…
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Study biology and tropical entomology this winter in the Peruvian Amazon! More info: fieldprojects.org/participat… #ufbugs
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A rainforest sap-sucking managerie, plus a moth that's bigger than a monkey wildtropics.wordpress.com/20…

The sap-sucking rainforest menagerie

The rainforest is a place of extravagance: beautiful, brightly colored and sometimes downright bizarre plants and animals of every conceivable form await those intrepid enough to travel to the trop…

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#UF grad students investigate a mysterious glow worm species in Peru goo.gl/O8VwX6 #ufbugs @GeoffGallice @MichaelTBentley
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A wild orang-utan, the not-so-distantly-related-to-humans 'person of the forest'. Read more: wildtropics.wordpress.com/20…
A bivouac is a tangled mass of as many as 2,000,000 angry, biting army ants. Read more wildtropics.wordpress.com/20… #UFBugs
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'Passion' in 'passion flower': ref to flower's sensual beauty or passion of Christ? Find out wildtropics.wordpress.com/20…
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Pupal mating Heliconius butterflies mate with female while she's still inside pupa! wildtropics.wordpress.com/20… #UFBugs
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What came first—the proboscis or the nectar spur? Read about Darwin's orchid and a one-foot proboscis wildtropics.wordpress.com/20… #UFBugs

What came first—the proboscis or the nectar spur?

The Fakahatchee Strand in South Florida is one of the last places where the elusive and nearly-extinct Florida panther still roams. The panther, which has been extirpated from most of its former ra…

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Posoqueria has crazy long flowers that only a moth w/1ft. proboscis can pollinate! Read more wildtropics.wordpress.com/20…
How does a 150ft. Kapok tree transport 1200 liters of water to its crown? Go to the Wild Tropics blog to find out: wildtropics.wordpress.com/20…

The Kapok tree and the incredible physics of water transport

The Kapok tree, known to science by its Latin name Ceiba pentandra, is a true rainforest giant, perhaps the largest of all Amazonian trees, and among the largest trees in the world. Biologists call…

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Heliconius butterflies roosting at night in Manu National Park, Peru. Read more on the blog wildtropics.wordpress.com/20…
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Geoff Gallice retweeted
USA TODAY
@USATODAY2 Jul 2014
University of South Florida students will be able to check out drones this fall: usat.ly/1opvBaf
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Colorful clearwing moths warn would-be attackers: “Eat me if you dare!” Read more - wildtropics.wordpress.com/

Wild Tropics

The tropical nature and biodiversity blog

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My photo! The Ogre-Faced Spider Throws A Net Over Its Prey Like A Gladiator iflscience.com/plants-and-an…
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