Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
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…
We saw danglepod (Sesbania herbacea), growing along with sweetscent (Pluchea odorata), in a disturbed area near the pedestrian path at the Fellsemere Trailhead when we visited on 7-15-2018. Danglepod is a native annual of moist, disturbed places. In 2008 when…
The aster family, Asteraceae, is sometimes called the daisy or sunflower family. Many plants in this family, like the weedy but native common beggarticks (Bidens alba) shown below, have the standard daisy setup, a central disc (which is filled with…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 