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Akito Y. Kawahara

Akito Y. Kawahara is an American and Japanese entomologist, scientist, and advocate of nature education, and the son of the modern conceptual artist On Kawara..

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Akito Y. Kawahara

Director & Curator, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity..

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Akito Kawahara

Akito was raised in Japan and the United States but gained an appreciation for insects during his childhood in Japan..

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Akito Y. Kawahara

Associate Professor and Curator of Insects, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida..

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Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case

Akito Kawahara has spent his life devoted to lepidoptera. Now he’s correcting the record on where they first evolved..

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Why you should thank a moth | Akito Kawahara | TEDxUF

Moths are often thought of as pests. But they pollinate, make silk for clothing..

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Akito Kawahara

Dr. Akito Kawahara is a Professor, Curator, and Director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida..

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EP. 47 — The Mass Disappearance of Insects with Akito Kawahara

Entomologist and professor, Akito Kawahara joins Adam to discuss why insects are disappearing at an alarming rate, how humans must play a critical role in their survival, and how incredible insects truly are..

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Look at a moth — and find a wonder that’s been waiting all along

Akito Kawahara is director and curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History..

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Akito Y. Kawahara

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Meet Our Graduate Students

Akito Kawahara still uses the butterfly net that his father gave him when he was four years old..

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About: Akito Y. Kawahara

Akito Y. Kawahara is an American and Japanese entomologist, scientist..

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Museum curator explains butterflies on PBS

Akito Kawahara spent a good deal of his childhood in Japan, where he says nature and studying bugs are popular among kids