An artful strangler fig (Ficus aurea) snakes around the trunk of a sabal palmetto (Sabal palmetto) at the entrance to the Centennial trail at the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge (PINWR), the very first national wildlife refuge, on Earth Day…
Category: Butterflies
Saltwort Eater
Karen Schuster (Class of 2009) shared this photograph of a great southern white butterfly (Ascia monuste) that she took at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge (PINWR). We also saw this butterfly on our field trip to the Winter Beach Salt…
Pretty (White) Peacock 2
Karen Schuster (Class of 2009) shared the photo above of a white peacock butterfly that she took on our walk led by Donna Winter (Class of 2016) on 11/24/2019 at the Indian River Lagoon Greenway. This brush-footed butterfly often is…
Friendly Red Admiral
On our walk at the Indian River Lagoon Greenway on 11/24/2019 led by Donna Winter (Class of 2016), we encountered a fabulously friendly red admiral butterfly (Vanessa atlanta rubria, pictured above in a photo by J.R. Williams. The butterfly graced the…
