Donna Winter (Class of 2016) emailed this wonderful photo of a clearwing hummingbird moth (Hemaris thysbe) in her garden in Canada -- in honor of National Moth Week. This day-active moth is found throughout most of Canada and the eastern…

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440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Donna Winter (Class of 2016) emailed this wonderful photo of a clearwing hummingbird moth (Hemaris thysbe) in her garden in Canada -- in honor of National Moth Week. This day-active moth is found throughout most of Canada and the eastern…
One of the 2 cherry laurel (Prunus caroliniana) trees planted at (Pelican Island) Audubon House are flowering beautifully now and attracting lots of pollinators. These smallish trees flowered last year not long after planting. I saw what I thought was a…
The re-located giant leather fern (Acrostichum danaeifolium) and all of the Audubon House landscape plants have been waiting for Nature to water them again. The last big rain that filled the dry retention pond was April 28 ... The giant…
The two cherry laurels (Prunus carolinana) included in the Audubon House landscape were inspired by the cherry laurels that grow in the mesic hammock at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, where they now are flowering. A member of the rose…