Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Lots of people love only some Lepidoptera. It's the beautiful butterflies that get nearly all of the attention. Moths, the other Lepidoptera, often get overlooked perhaps because most of them are creatures of the night and some of them are…
At the third session of the 2018 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) Volunteer Nature Stewardship class, Life in the Pits & Treetops, a bit of life in shrubs commanded a great deal of attention. Tom Wilson spotted a camouflaged critter…
Moths have been on earth since long before butterflies. Fossil records suggest that moths were here about 190 million years ago. About 20,400 butterflies exist world-wide. 765 butterflies are found in North America, and 189 butterflies are thought to occur…
Devil’s potato (Echites umbellatus) is a relatively rare woody vine of beach strand and, further south, pine rocklands. It grows only on the southeast coast of Florida and only as far north as Brevard County. Seeing it in flower at…
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