How to Use lepidopterist in a Sentence
lepidopterist
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Among them are many pairs or other small groups of species that are so similar that not even the most experienced lepidopterists can tell them apart by eye.
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Glenn Zorpette,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Alte Pforzheimer Hütte, a stone house originally built in 1901, served as a base camp for the lepidopterists hunting rare moths in the Italian Alps.
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Glenn Zorpette,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 2025
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The butterflies’ final destination was a secret, not discovered by the lepidopterists until 1974.
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Literary Hub,
3 Mar. 2026
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Indeed, one of the goals of this expedition is to develop and refine best practices in collecting samples for genome sequencing and to train a cadre of young lepidopterists, who have varying levels of familiarity with the technologies of genome sequencing and annotation.
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Glenn Zorpette,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 2025
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That’s what brought Wiesmair, Spilker, and 41 other lepidopterists to the Italian Alps for the Project Psyche expedition this past July.
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IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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At the Hotel Tyrol in the Italian Alps, lepidopterist Charlotte Wright of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a leader of Project Psyche, dissects the yellow tiger moth captured near the stone hut.
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Glenn Zorpette,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 2025
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