Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Along the hammock trail at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, the handiwork of crafty moth larvae is evident upon the leaves of shiny-leaved wild coffee (Psychotria nervosa). Unroll the leaf, and you are most likely to find only frass (insect…
Epiphytic plants need to find a way to compensate for what they do not have -- roots that draw nutrients from the soil. Bromeliads like the green wild pine (Tillandsia utriculata) pictured above with vase-shaped shoots -- or "tanks" --…
Spanish moss (Tillandsia usenoides) is not a moss. Its common name is a misnomer. Spanish moss is a member of the Bromeliaceae (bromeliad or pineapple) family and is a flowering plant that completes photosynthesis using rainfall and nutrients that it…
Insect - plant interrelationships are amazingly complex and curious, likely the result of eons of co-evolution. Galls are abnormal growths caused by mites, fungi, and insects, the product of intimate and often species-specific associations. Domatia are different. They are not…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 