The 2017 Tallahassee Butterfly Count

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In Late July, volunteer researchers spread out over Tallahassee to see how many of each butterfly species they could find. It’s part of a yearly event for the North American Butterfly Association, who uses data from locations across the continent to chart butterfly trends. Members of north Florida’s Hairstreak let us tag along.

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Rob Diaz de Villegas is a senior producer for television at WFSU Public Media, covering outdoors and ecology. After years of producing the music program OutLoud, Rob found himself in a salt marsh with a camera, and found a new professional calling as well. That project, the National Science Foundation funded "In the Grass, On the Reef," spawned the award-winning WFSU Ecology Blog. Now in its tenth year, the Ecology Blog recently wrapped its most ambitious endeavor, the EcoCitizen Project.

Rob is married with two young sons, who make a pretty fantastic adventure squad.