Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Maypop (Passiflora incarnata) is one of six passionflower vines native to Florida. Passionflower vines are the larval host plant for our Florida state butterfly, the zebra longwing (Heliconius charithonia), the julia (Dryas julia), and the gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae). Visit…
Jane Schnee, who purchased a beautiful bit of scrub along Barber Street in Sebastian for conservation, took Judy Gersony, Gayle Lafferty, and me for a Saturday scrub stroll. We saw scrub jays and more, including an ear-like gall growing on…
Pictured here in 2005 is Dr. George O'Meara about to siphon out the contents of a great Atlantic land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) hole as part of the annual Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory - Pelican Island Audubon Society volunteer stewardship class.…
Danglepod is one common name for Sesbania herbacea, an annual, weedy native plant in the pea (Fabaceae) family. Found throughout the southern and southwestern North America, this plant also is known by the names bigpod sesbania, coffee-weed, and Colorado river…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 