Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
It's a girl crab (spider)! University of Florida's Featured Creatures describes the spineybacker orbweaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis) as "one of the most colorful spiders in Florida" and as "one of the most conspicuous." The information in this post comes from that…
Substantial spider webs sometimes traverse the trails at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. Most often, they are the webs of a large, brightly colored golden spider (Nephilia clavipes) commonly called the the golden silk spider, the banana spider, the golden…
Indian River Mosquito Control Director Doug Carlson, pictured above in the distance, led a wonderful walk at Spoonbill Marsh on the afternoon of 11-7-2015. The saltbush (Baccharis halimifolia), the plant festooned with white fluff above, and the spiders were stupendous…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 