The devastating damage caused by the deadly combination of laurel wilt and the redbay ambrosia beetle is unmistakable and is shown above in a photo taken in May of 2008 on Highway A1A. This invasive disease carried by an invasive…
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The devastating damage caused by the deadly combination of laurel wilt and the redbay ambrosia beetle is unmistakable and is shown above in a photo taken in May of 2008 on Highway A1A. This invasive disease carried by an invasive…
The Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory Volunteer Nature Stewardship Program started to "celebrate" National Invasive Species Week a bit early on 2/16/2019 with a talk by Dr. Amanda Hodges, University of Florida Associate Extension Scientist & Doctor of Plant Medicine Program Director,…
Florida privet (Forestiera segregata) is flowering again. Wild olive is another name for this sturdy native plant often found volunteering along mosquito impoundment dikes and in the midst of ornamental hedges underneath places where birds perch. Birds seem to love…
The weather for the hike to the Observation Tower on Saturday, 1-26-2019, was dank & drizzly, but we were rewarded by the brief presence of playful reddish egret, a species know for its clownish hurting behavior, and a much longer…