Since 1999 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory Professor Emeritus Dr. George O'Meara has presented Life in the Pits & Treetops as part of the Volunteer Nature Stewardship Class. We have learned that the holes in moist areas at the Oslo Riverfront…

Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Since 1999 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory Professor Emeritus Dr. George O'Meara has presented Life in the Pits & Treetops as part of the Volunteer Nature Stewardship Class. We have learned that the holes in moist areas at the Oslo Riverfront…
Last year this giant land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) decided to check out "higher ground" and clambered up the railing to our first floor. Also known as the Great Atlantic land crab, these semi-terrestrial crabs live in burrows -- crab holes…
Since the start of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) Volunteer Nature Stewardship class in the Fall of 1998, Dr. George O'Meara, FMEL faculty member then and now Professor Emeritus, has enchanted everyone with his Life in the Pits and…
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Be on the lookout for this fierce looking crab at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). The mangrove root crab (Goniopsis cruentata) is a tropical crab of mangrove forests that ranges from south Florida to southern Brazil, throughout the Caribbean…