Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
This mangrove buckeye butterfly (Junonia evarete) posed for me at the Toni Robinson Waterfront Trail. The larval food for this butterfly is black mangrove (Avicennia germinans): As a result, you will see this butterfly in open areas near mangroves and…
Please enjoy these gorgeous photos of zebra longing butterflies photographed at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area by James Martellotti. His wife, Eiko, participated in our 2013 class and brought her husband on the last free guided nature walk of 2013…
Male flowers of saltbush (Baccharis halimifolia) lack the sensational white silkiness of female flowers. Both male and female flowers are attractive to a variety of pollinating insects, including butterflies (like the mangrove buckeye pictured below) and bees (look closely) ...
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 