Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory - Pelican Island Audubon Society Volunteer Stewardship Class of 2014 concluded on Saturday, 2/22, with a walk on the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. The class began with the second-ever showing of the Secret Life…
Carpenter bees are 'nice' native bees. These solitary bees are great pollinators, co-evolved with our native plants. Two species of Xylocopa live in Florida, are about as big as bumblebees, and are distinguished by their shiny, black rumps. Pictured above…
The nectar of the small yellow-green flowers of Florida privet (Forestiera segregata) are quite attractive to pollinators of all sorts. Florida privet flowers in the winter when migratory birds are looking for insects to eat, though flowering time is quite…
Veteran volunteer Jean 'JJ' Romano sent the following picture of Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), which she photographed yesterday at the west of Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area near Publix. This vine, at a quick glance, is sometimes confused with poison ivy.…
