Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
On our walk on 4-20-24 at the Coastal Oaks Preserve led by Indian River Land Trust Director of Stewardship Dave Fuss, we saw a Florida banded water snake (Nerodia fascia pictiventris) well-camouflaged in the "bed" of a dried out pond…
Pink woodsorrel (Oxalis debils var. corymbosa), a non-native perennial wildflower, seems to come and go around here (but not everywhere). Over the years, we have seen it growing in the shade at the entrance to the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area…
Folks sometimes think that monarch butterflies as the only butterflies that migrate. Though their migration distance is not nearly as dramatic as that of monarchs, great southern white butterflies (Ascia monuste) sometimes migrate from 20 to 40 miles in two…
The sweet scent of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) especially perfumes the evening and early morning in our yard and wherever it grows. Saw palmetto blooms from April through July. This ubiquitous palm grows throughout the entire state of Florida and…
