Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations declined by 44% during 2015 - 2016, according to the Bee Informed program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which surveys commercial and small-scale beekeepers to track the health of their bee colonies. Non-native…
Fossil records show that beetles were very abundant more than 300 million years ago. About 40% of the known insects are beetles. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, beetles are "responsible for pollinating 88% of the 240,000 flowering plants globally". Beetles…
Butterflies likely are the best-loved bugs, but bees, beetles, mosquitoes, flies, and other insects pollinate our plants, as do bats, hummingbirds, and tropical birds. June 20 to June 26, 2016 is pollinator week. Butterflies tend to prefer to nectar on…
Pollinator Week for 2016 is June 20 through June 26. Of course, planting for pollinators should always be a gardening consideration. Pollinators bring us more than 30% of the food that we eat. Some pollinators - like hummingbirds and butterflies…
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