Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
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 &…
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…
Pretty purple martins grace a tower of gourds at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey. These insectivores are naturally secondary cavity nesters (i.e., tree holes, woodpecker holes) but have co-evolved (almost entirely in the eastern part of…
Ken Gonyo (Class of 2012 ) "captured" these air potato beetles (Lilioceris cheni) reproducing at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) yesterday. Thanks to Dan Farley (Class of 2015), Vernon Chestine (Class of 2016), and Ken for continuing the weekly Wednesday…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 