Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The simpsons stopper (Myrcinathes fragrans) planted at the southwest corner of the Audubon House is flowering copiously. Its fragrant, multi-stamened flowers attract a plethora of pollinators. Upon it was a metallic blue-green fly, likely a hairy maggot blowfly (Chrysomya rufifacies),…
Diane Morgan (Class of 2012) sent this photo of a julia butterfly (Dryas iulia) taken today at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. Julia butterflies are long-lived, and older butterflies may show the tattering signs of 'life'. Like the related brush-footed…
All of the photos that I have taken of great southern white butterflies (Ascia monuste) have been males. Finally, today, Mother's Day, a female finally posed for me in my own yard on common beggarticks (Bidens alba). Note her dusky…
Giant leather fern (Acrostichum danaeifolioum) lives up to its common name. This fern is pictured above at one of the reflection ponds at Bok Tower. Known as the largest fern in north America, its fronds can reach up to 12',…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 