Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Bees do the heavy “lifting” of pollination.
Bee balm (Monarda punctuata) attracts butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. Look how pollen from the anthers of the bee balm sticks to the top of this bulky, native southern carpenter bee (Xylocopa micans), easily identified by its 'shiny hiney'. This…
Flowers 'reward' their pollinators with nectar and pollen. Above a southern carpenter bee (Xylocopa micans), identifiable in part by its "shiny hiney", heads toward a partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata). The nickel to quarter-sized flowers of this member of the Fabaceae…
On our field trip to Captain Forster Preserve, we came across curious circular cuts in the leaves of tallowwood (Ximenia americana), a plant of dry places both ancient beach (scrub) and current beach, pictured below at south Oslo Riverfront Conservation…
Each fall the frostweed (Verbesina virginica) flowers fabulously. Pollinators flock to it. At Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, this plant, which dies back to the ground in the winter, was beginning to set seed in September... Flowering was especially prolific…
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