{"id":831,"date":"2016-03-25T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugcloset.cos.ucf.edu\/?page_id=831"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:18:49","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/biology\/bugcloset\/people\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bug Closet offers opportunities to motivated UCF students with an interest in entomology and natural history. These students work in the collection carrying out various duties including curation and identification of arthropod specimens, data entry, pest management, and field work.<\/p>\n

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Alessandra Pandolfi<\/strong> acquired her Master\u2019s degree in Biology from the University of Pavia (Italy) working on alien freshwater invertebrates and community ecology. She has experience as assistant curator and educator in natural history museums. She started volunteering at the Bug Closet in spring of 2019 and became an employee in January 2020. Her main focus is studying click beetles (Elateridae) but she is involved also in other curatorial duties. She is currently pursuing her PhD in the Urban Ecology Lab at UCF studying ecological processes in human-dominated ecosystems and how insects (mainly beetles) respond to this pressure.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ling<\/strong> is our current outreach coordinator and UCF Biology graduate who was studying conservation and primate behavior. During her last few semesters, her passions shifted from vertebrates to invertebrates. Now she enjoys her time pinning and keying out insects at the Bug Closet. Hemiptera and Hymenoptera are her favorite insect orders, but more specifically, Cicadas (Cicadidae) and Cuckoo wasps (Chrysididae) are her favorite families. Outside of the Closet, you’ll find her at her family’s bonsai nursery or baking at home.<\/div>\n
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Robin Marquez<\/strong> is a Dr. Ronald E. McNair Scholar and undergraduate Biology researcher whose favorite insects are solitary bees, especially leafcutter bees (Megachilidae), and wasps. He started volunteering for the Bug Closet in 2023, then became an employee in January 2024. He also works with the Urban Ecology Lab studying insect communities in human-modified environments. In the Summer of 2024, Robin will be a research intern at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., studying micro-parasitoid species diversity in Central and South America.<\/div>\n
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Bonnie Montalvo<\/strong> is a current undergraduate Entomology major who loves and adores all things bugs! Her favorite order is Coleoptera and favorite bug is the Saber-Toothed Longhorn Beetle! She hopes to work in integrated biological pest management to help with agricultural pests.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jon Longhurst and Lisa Roberts \u2013 these are two of the original Bug Closet crew helping in the set-up of the operations. Jon continues as the Bug Closet photographer (now a professional) and Lisa is currently working as a full-time mom!!!! But, she can still paint with a mean polyurethane brush. Picture taken in office of the director of the entomology dept. at the Florida Dept. of Agric. and Cons. Serv. \u2013 State Collection of Arthropods.\u00a0\u00a0(circa 1994)<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Clay Scherer is another member of the original Bug Closet crew.\u00a0 As an undergrad he volunteered for UCFC when it first opened and took an entomology class. He went on to get his PhD in entomology at the University of Florida and is now an entomologist working for Syngenta, which has taken him to Switzerland!\u00a0 Clay has been a benefactor and advocate of the Bug Closet for many years. (2020)<\/p>\n

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Kevin King displays some of the more beautiful specimens. Lepidoptera, like these, make up a small but colorful part of the collection. (circa 1994\/1995)<\/p>\n

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Phillip Russell, a graduate student, adds sorted Hymenoptera from our year-long trapping project to our database. He added valuable specimens from his thesis project investigating the effectiveness of different colored pan traps in assessing bee diversity in sandhill communities in Central Florida, and has identified thousands of bees for the Bug Closet.\u00a0 He was also a member of the Sierra Nevada collecting trip team.\u00a0 Phil is currently a USDA officer working on citrus greening control among other things. (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

\"\"Trevor Smith, an undergrad working in the Bug Closet, sorts our many boxes of Coleoptera.\u00a0 He went on to get his PhD in entomology at the University of Florida, and is currently the Managing Director of the Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, as well as an affiliate\/graduate faculty member in the UF Entomology and Nematology department. (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

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Trevor Smith just after finishing his study project \u2013 \u201cImmediate Response of the Order Coleoptera to Prescribed Winter Burning\u201d (also published in Y.E.S. Quarterly). (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

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Linda Berlin, a graduate student, is our resident carpenter and lily lady. She\u2019s a great help! Now an instructor at Seminole Community College. (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

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Fern Gattorno, an undergrad, helps Dr. Snelson organize the fish collection. Now an inspector for USDA in South Florida. (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Heather Neff, an honors student and volunteer, adds carabid beetles to our database. (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jason Cohen, an honors student and volunteer, adds fresh alcohol to our many vials of arthropods. (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Mike Ray was a Bug Closet intern mostly doing data entry. He is now a Senior Scientist at Atkins. (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

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Saba Akram buggin\u2019 out. (circa 2000)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Travis Sims graduated with a biology B.S. from UCF in 2004, and was our resident expert on Odonata, and spiders. He brought our holdings of odonates up to snuff and \u201cdid\u201d the arachnid collection of some 4,000 vials. Picture him standing up in the front of a \u201cjohn boat\u201d chasing a dragonfly. Currently an environmental consultant. (circa 2001)<\/p>\n

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\"\"John Westcott doing data entry of Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. (circa spring, 2005).<\/p>\n

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\"\"Roxzelle Morris, a graduate and volunteer. (circa spring, 2005)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Karlie Carman worked in the Bug Closet while pursuing her undergrad Biology degree at UCF.\u00a0 She then went on to complete her M.S. in the EPAS Lab at UCF.\u00a0 She donated excellent voucher specimens from her thesis project investigating the effects of habitat disturbance on bee diversity and flower\/bee interaction at Archbold Biological Station.\u00a0 Karlie is now an Environmental Science and AP Biology teacher in Houston, TX. (2020)<\/p>\n

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\"\"These are people who frequently worked behind the scenes to place the traps that bring in the insects, I.D. specimens, and keep the collection in dust-free shape (among other things). From left-to-right, they are: Sean McCarthy (undergrad), Anthony Cuminale (undergrad), Ben Gochnour (B.S.), Hanna Stephens (undergrad), and Derek A. Woller (Ph.D. student). (circa 2012)<\/p>\n

\"\"Ben Gochnour was a biology student who worked in the Bug Closet and ran Malaise and UV-light traps for us from 2011-2013.\u00a0 He also donated specimens from his undergrad project investigating the diversity of ants and other soil-dwelling arthropods in sandhill habitat.\u00a0 He went on to receive his M.S. from the University of Georgia studying exotic ant spread and effects on diversity.\u00a0 Ben is currently earning his PhD in the Gandhi Lab at UGA looking at how disturbance from Hurricane Michael has affected forest health and the bark beetle community in southern Georgia pinelands. (2020)<\/p>\n

\"\"Eleazar Marquez was another one of the BC\u2019s many undergraduate workers and he has been in and out over the past few years. Mysterious and quiet, but we don\u2019t mind because he gets the job done! (circa 2013)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Once again, we present to you Hanna Stephens, undergrad employee extraordinaire! Hanna has been with the BC for a pretty long time, but she will finally be leaving us at spring semester\u2019s end because she\u2019s graduating (unfortunately for us). Guess we\u2019ll have to find someone else to do the work of 3 people in exchange for mint oreos\u2026Good luck, Hanna! (circa 2013)<\/p>\n

\"\"Talysia Ellis is an undergraduate who has now worked in the BC for two semesters and came to us through UCF\u2019s work study program. Her interests lie in nursing, which is too bad because she performs her job well. Besides, who wants to work on humans when there are so many cool insects out there? Yes, we\u2019re biased. (circa 2013)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ji Min Noh is a wonderful undergraduate volunteer pulling triple duty. Somehow, she finds the time to moonlight in Dr. Song\u2019s lab and sunlight in Dr. Hinkle\u2019s lab. All she needs now is a 2nd floor gig and she\u2019ll have all four floors of the Biology building covered. (circa 2013)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Like the man says, he likes flies (Diptera) and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that! A noble pursuit, to be sure. Brighton Hall has been working in the BC for almost a year now and he\u2019s managed to I.D. tons of flies to the family level (so far). Keep it up! (8\/25\/2014)<\/p>\n

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\"\"This is Emmi Curtiss, yet another mysterious denizen of the BC. Notice the coffee cup in the background \u2013 it provides her the fuel she needs to power through her tasks when she slips quietly in before the rest of us rise. You make the rest of us look lazy, but we still appreciate your continued service! (9\/24\/2014)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Who is this cheery lady? And why is she so excited when she\u2019s only holding a case of Leps? Why, it\u2019s Erin Barbeau, worker extraordinaire \u201cOutreach Coordinator\u201d for the BC, and a true lover of Lepidoptera (about time, right?).\u00a0Erin<\/span>\u00a0graduated in 2017 with her bachelor\u2019s in biology and is attending the\u00a0University of Colorado \u2013 Boulder for graduate school focusing on natural history collections. (12\/2\/2014)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ryan Daley Ridenbaugh worked in the Bug Closet while earning his biology B.S.\u00a0 He did an undergrad project studying prescribed fire effects on Carabidae (ground beetles) diversity.\u00a0 He then went on to get his M.S. in the Sharanowski Lab investigating the systematics and distribution of parasitic braconid wasps (Eadya) and their effectiveness as biocontrol agents on leaf beetle pests of Eucalyptus in Australia. Starting in fall 2020 he will be a PhD student in the Linnen Lab at the University of Kentucky, studying speciation in Neodiprion sawflies using genomic tools.\u00a0 (2015)<\/p>\n

\"\"Bonnie Allison worked in the Bug Closet sorting samples and pinning for about a year while she pursued her undergrad biology degree at UCF. (2016)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Kathiana \u201cKathy\u201d Desir graduated as a psychology student minoring in Italian who started working at the Bug Closet fall 2015. She originally was interested in ants, but discovered Orthoptera, and has been fascinated with them ever since. Outside of identifying Orthopterans, Kathy spent much of her time doing the essential work of databasing specimens. She currently works for the Orange County Library System. (2016)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Louis Dennin was an outstanding outreach coordinator. He graduated as an economics major, working at the Bug Closet starting as a freshman in 2015, because he finds insects to have a unique \u201cartistic\u201d quality to them. He really enjoyed collection outings to the field. In the collection, he mainly worked on his favorite group of insects: Neuroptera. Now he is the extension coordinator for UF’s “Honey Bee Research & Extension Lab.” (2016)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Mason Reinhart formerly worked in the Bug Closet as a Biology major and was the former Vice President of the Entomological Society of Central Florida. He has had the wonderful opportunity of joining Disney\u2019s pest management team. (2018)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Brian Silverman graduated as an interdisciplinary masters student that had been working in the Bug Closet for quite a long time (since undergrad). He worked to identify and curate the Hemiptera portion of the collection. Brian also was an expert at operating the Bug Closet\u2019s photo unit for specimen photography. He is currently a Land Management Specialist at Lake Apopka North Shore for the St. Johns River Water Management District. (2018)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jordan Ehmke while at her internship at an insect zoo and butterfly garden in Costa Rica.\u00a0 While at the Bug Closet she was tasked with sorting and pinning samples from bioblitzes and traps from Peru.\u00a0 She graduated in 2019 and worked as a middle school science teacher for a few years before accepting an entomology field job with NEON in Gainesville. (2019)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dylan Grubb is a recent UCF biology grad who is pursuing a career in education in Gainesville. He worked at the Bug Closet for two years, mostly sorting samples and pinning, and did undergrad research on sphecid wasps in the Sharanowski Lab. (2020)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Gloria Stewart worked in the Bug Closet while getting her Biology B.S. at UCF, starting in 2016.\u00a0 While here she became quite adept at identifying bees, and enjoys them so much that she continues to do it as a volunteer.\u00a0 She is also the former Outreach Coordinator of the Entomological Society of Central Florida, and is now an Environmental Specialist for the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection. (2019)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Hannah Shell has her Bachelor’s degree with a Major in Biology and Minor in Psychology from UCF. She started volunteering at the Bug Closet with an interest in Coleoptera, and went on to work curating and identifying specimens. She is currently Lead IPM Technician at Curaleaf, Mt. Dora. For fun she likes to collect insects for her personal collection, read fiction novels, and travel as much as possible. (2021)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Vikki Heilman was a Biology major who took up working at the Bug Closet as a transfer student in 2018 after volunteering to help with Bug Closet tours. She was an excellent outreach coordinator, and is a past president of the Entomological Society of Central Florida. Her favorite order of insect is Hemiptera, but she mainly focused on the parasitic wasp family Braconidae while working here and in the Sharanowski Lab. Vikki currently works as a field technician with Massey pest control.\u00a0 She sings in a band and does kickboxing in her free time. (2019)<\/p>\n

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Max Gosselin is a UCF graduate who studied biology with a focus on insects. His interest is primarily social insects, especially ants, and he discovered his love of bugs after taking the General Entomology class at UCF, and soon after came to work at the Bug Closet He is now a graduate student and research assistant studying social insects at the UF Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, FL. In his free time he is an avid collector of insects, both alive and preserved, and enjoys making terrariums for his pet invertebrates to inhabit. (2023)<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Rachel Weavers worked in the Bug Closet while pursuing her undergrad biology degree, while also working in the Fedorka Lab, researching mosquito larvae and bees, and as a field tech at Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area, and is the past Treasurer for the Entomological Society of Central Florida. She has an affinity for Lepidoptera, especially moths, and is currently a grad student in the UCF Biology Department. (2023)<\/p>\n

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\"AAva Greschuk graduated UCF with an Environmental Studies degree with a minor in Sociology. While focusing on conservation and sustainable living, she had an interest in insect pinning and after taking the entomology course here at UCF, she fell in love with all things bugs! She started our Instagram account (@ucf.bug.closet) and worked in the curation process. Her favorite insect family is Curculionidae (weevils). Outside of the bug closet she has a cat named Sunny who ironically, is a frequent eater of bugs!<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"ABrooke Lambert has a love for all insects and enjoyed teaching others curious about them in outreach events across her college journey. She worked at The Bug Closet to learn more about the curation process, how to educate others, identify insects, and understand their importance in our world.<\/p>\n

Brooke volunteered and worked at The Bug Closet (2023 to 2025), was president of the Entomological Society of Central Florida (2025), assisted in biology labs, and raised various pet insects at home. She is now an Environmental Science graduate and is working on controlling mosquito-borne diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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