Windy pea

At Cypress Bend Community Preserve on 4-10-2016, Donna Winter (Class of 2016) pointed out this distinctively shaped partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata). Like many native plants, this species is very variable in form. This partridge pea, growing in the white sand…

Milkweed Monarch Quandry

Donna Winter (Class of 2016) pointed at a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) along Olso Road at the very end of the first session of the 2016 Volunteer Nature Stewardship Class. Shown above are monarch butterfly  caterpillars (larvae) feeding upon non-native tropical…

Limber on Prange Island

Joe Carroll (Class of Fall 1998) took Bob Bruce and me to Little & "Big" Prange Islands on Father's Day. Accessible only by boat and purchased for conservation in 1996 by Indian River County, these islands -- mostly real and…