Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
It's that time of year, again! Love bugs flourish twice per year: April - May and August - September. Love bugs on frostweed (Verbesina virginica) Love bugs on saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) Also know as honeymoon bugs, double-headed bugs, and…
Populations of blue land crabs (Cardisoma guanhami) have declined dramatically over the years due to over-harvesting and habitat loss. They are most active at dawn and dusk near the full moon. September and October tend to be their most active…
Fiddler's spurge (Euphorbia heterophylla) is an annual weed (or wildlflower) that is native to the southeastern United States as well as tropical and subtropical America. Mexican fireplant, wild poinsettia, Japanese poinsettia, hypocrite poinsettia, and desert poinsettia are other common names.…
When we visited the South Prong Slough on 6-16-2022, we saw the very beginnings of shoestring fern (Vittaria lineata), an epiphytic fern with an almost absolute allegiance to the trunk of cabbage palms (Sabal palmetto) in moist, mostly shady places.…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 