Lots of people love only some Lepidoptera. It's the beautiful butterflies that get nearly all of the attention. Moths, the other Lepidoptera, often get overlooked perhaps because most of them are creatures of the night and some of them are…
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Lots of people love only some Lepidoptera. It's the beautiful butterflies that get nearly all of the attention. Moths, the other Lepidoptera, often get overlooked perhaps because most of them are creatures of the night and some of them are…
On our field trip on 7-21-2018 to Treasure Shores Park, we saw American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) growing in a recently disturbed area not far from the lifeguard station. Last year, this area (shown below) was filled was dead beach naupaka…
Tom Wilson (Class of 2017) shared this stupendous photo of a rain clouds and a rainbow at Treasure Shores Park prior to our field trip there on 7-21-2018. The early bird gets the worm (or the rainbow). Treasure Shores park…
This robber fly was perched on a tough bully (Sideroxylon tenax) at Treasure Shores Park when we visited there on June 3, 2017. Robber flies belong to the family Asilidae. Florida has more than 100 species, and nearly 1,000 species are found…