Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Since 1999 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory Professor Emeritus Dr. George O'Meara has presented Life in the Pits & Treetops as part of the Volunteer Nature Stewardship Class. We have learned that the holes in moist areas at the Oslo Riverfront…
Since the start of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) Volunteer Nature Stewardship class in the Fall of 1998, Dr. George O'Meara, FMEL faculty member then and now Professor Emeritus, has enchanted everyone with his Life in the Pits and…
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Be on the lookout for this fierce looking crab at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). The mangrove root crab (Goniopsis cruentata) is a tropical crab of mangrove forests that ranges from south Florida to southern Brazil, throughout the Caribbean…
Foul-tempered & slow-moving Hurricane Frances made landfall on Hutchinson Island on September 5, 2004, leaving many residents feeling quite crabby and wishing that we could have - like the blue land crabs (Cardisoma guanhumi) - plugged up our burrows to…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 