Early Birds!

Bob Bruce, Deen Copeland, Sandee & Steve Dawdy,  Gayle Lafferty, Diane Morgan, Lorraine & Peter Sutherland, Charlie Trippe, John Warner, and I enjoyed an early morning stroll at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge (PINWR) on 8-28-2016, shown below at the…

Throw(Way)Back Thursday

It's November of 2000, and Dr. Nancy Coile is teaching a basic botany class in the Boathouse of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL). This photograph is the oldest photograph from the FMEL volunteer nature stewardship class. How swiftly technology…

World Mosquito Day

Today, 8/20/2016, is not only National Honeybee Day. It also is World Mosquito Day. Until the recent emergence of Zika virus in the western hemisphere, mosquito-borne disease has not garnered much media attention. Now, Zika is in our national &…

National Honeybee Day

Today, 8/20/2016, is national honeybee day. Honeybees (Apis mollifera) are "imports" from Europe that are "farmed" (and trucked) to perform pollination services for a variety of crops and to produce honey. Our nation's beekeepers report a decline of 44% from…