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Wow, I jumped on the McGuire website to search something, and I get slapped in the face with "Remembering Jackie Miller". Oh no.


Jacqueline Miller, Allyn curator emerita at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, passed away peacefully earlier this year on July 8.

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scien ... ne-miller/

Though we'd never met face-to-face, we'd corresponded and I found her to be delightful. She helped me out once when I really needed it. I suppose I should have made a greater effort to get there sooner.

I heard about this soon after she died. I only met het once at a Lepsoc meetimg in Washington state in 2010, but she was very helpful. Obviously we shared a mutual interest in Castniidae on which she wrote her PhD dissertation. We had a long conversation about these bugs. RIP Jackie.

Sad news, RIP.

Adam.

How sad. Jackie and her husband Lee were so very nice and taught me tons. I was honored to have had the pleasure of collecting with them in the 80s in FLA. I still have the one of a kind lep belt buckle they sold me. RIP Jackie.