
MOSI Congratulations Christina Zaporowski Jones! You're the winner of a family 4 pack of tickets to Where the Wild Things Are in MOSI's IMAX Dome Theatre. We'll message you with details.

MOSI Still time to win a family 4 pack of tickets to the only local IMAX showing of Where the Wild Things Are! Tell us your favorite childhood memory!

MOSI From the butterfly garden: Florida's State Butterfly- The Zebra Longwing
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Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) was designated the state butterfly for Florida in 1996 by Govenor Chiles. Easy to identify with its long wings and creamy yellow zebra stripes, this butterfly is certainly a favorite in the MOSI gardens. ...

MOSI MOSI's November Volunteer of the MOnth for 2009: Will Shumaker!
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Will Shumaker has been with MOSI since July of 1996. Over the course of his tenure, Mr. Shumaker has logged over 3,783 hours as a membership services volunteer. His work has been indespensible.Will is an avid mountain and ice climber who enjoys movies, travel and phtography. ...

MOSI Win a family 4 pack of tix to Where the Wild Things Are in IMAX at MOSI. Tell us about your favorite childhood memory! Contest ends at 4pm on Wed

MOSI Now Blooming: Climbing Aster smells amazing in the Olustree Longleaf Pine Flatwoods Garden
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Climbing Carolina Aster (Symphotrichum carolinianum) syn (Aster carolinianus) is a late blooming fall favorite in the Richard T. Bowers Historic Tree Grove at MOSI. Spreading in the Flatwoods garden beneath ...

MOSI From the Butterfly Garden: Basic butterfly gardening for Central Florida
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A butterfly garden requires a good mix of butterfly nectar and host plants so that butterflies will not only be attracted to your garden for a drink, but they will also lay eggs. This will provide a location for the entire butterfly lifecycle to occur. ...

MOSI Article from Bay Soundings featuring our Butterfly Gardener, Kristen Gilpin, making a case for caterpillar food in butterfly gardens.
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Anybody can plant a butterfly garden with beautiful blooming flowers – but people who plant food for caterpillars will have butterfly factories. In fact, the most spectacular butterfly garden in the world will be deserted and empty unless there is food for their caterpillars nearby. ...

MOSI From the butterfly garden blog: A look back at some of the glorious orange blooms from this past growing season at MOSI, Tampa
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This season there has been a bounty of colors abounding in the MOSI gardens so this week I’d like to review some of the highlights from a really fantastic season.

MOSI From the butterfly garden blog: Want to try your hand at rearing a few caterpillars at home? Check out this guide that explains challenges of butterfly rearing and some tips on how to make it work out for you.
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I get a lot of questions from butterfly enthusiasts who want to rear caterpillars at home and would like some instruction. My first response is usually to suggest rearing caterpillars outside in their gardens where natural processes can occur. ...

MOSI Twitter contest for a family 4-pack of tickets to MOSI's Hall-O-Boo is still going! 31st response @MOSITampa with your favorite Halloween treat wins.

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Hall-O-Boo Starts tonight! Reserve your tickets now at http://www.mosigiving.org/2009halloboo.h tml
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MOSI will present Hall-O-Boo on October 22, 23 and 24, 2009 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. All guests at this not-so-scary, yet fun Halloween event will enjoy trick or treats, tattoos, face painting, Mad Scientist ...

MOSI We have a winner! The family 4 pack of tickets to MOSI's Hall-O-Boo goes to Lisa Brown Crowther! We'll message you soon about how to pick up your tickets! Congratulations!

MOSI From the BioWorks Butterfly Garden: A Giant among Swallowtails
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The Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) is a wonderful example of the obvious naming conventions among lepidopterans as it has swallow-tails and indeed is gigantic.













