Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Each fall the frostweed (Verbesina virginica) flowers fabulously. Pollinators flock to it. At Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, this plant, which dies back to the ground in the winter, was beginning to set seed in September... Flowering was especially prolific…
Jane Schnee identified this unusual plant when Reva Brugnoli, Judy Gersony, Gayle Lafferty, Nancy Soucy, and I visited the North Sebastian Conservation Area yesterday seeking wet flatwoods plants for the on-line Palm Beach Community College class that we are taking.…
Marlberry (Ardisia escalloniodies) flowers and fruits throughout the year. The fall rains have brought a flush of fragrant flowers to many marlberry, showing off the stunning yellow anthers (the pollen-producing part of the plant) referenced by the genus name, Ardisia.…
Honeybees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and orchid bees have corbicula (corbiculae is plural), commonly called pollen baskets or pollen sacs. Corbiculae are specialized 'containers' on the outside of the hind legs. Bees transfer pollen from their bodies to a comb on…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 