Meet a Scientist: NHM Entomologist Elizabeth Long

Elizabeth Long is an expert on butterflies and we caught up with her to discuss her current research with NHM and UCLA.
Long is a biologist with a particular interest in adaptive evolution, mimicry in butterflies, and ecological and evolutionary genetics. She has lived in the Los Angeles area since August 2014. She works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum and the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science. Much of her time is spent surveying butterfly communities in the Santa Monica Mountains and also in urban L.A. via the Museum’s BioSCAN project. In her studies she uses a combination of fieldwork, genetics/genomics techniques, and experimental approaches.

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Tens of thousands of insects are being killed by people researching why they are in decline. Why not a camera with time and GPS?

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The amount of insects killed by researchers is minimal compared to the amount of insects killed by pesticides and other toxins. If you're suggesting researchers are responsible for insect decline, I recommend you do further research. There are many reasons why entomologists have to kill insects for research, mainly to do with the fact that their population sizes are so large and the insects themselves are so small. It's not feasible to tag and release insects the way we can larger animals - the technology needed has to be so tiny as to not weigh down the insect. Additionally, the number of insects needed is far too large for tagging to be feasible. Some larger animals can have characteristics that makes different members of a population easy to distinguish, but it's impossible to do so with insects. Also, differentiating between insect species almost always requires a microscope, and it's much easier to identify dead insects than live insects. Researchers don't love killing insects, but when the animals you research are so tiny it's a necessary part of research.