Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Moths have been on earth since long before butterflies. Fossil records suggest that moths were here about 190 million years ago. About 20,400 butterflies exist world-wide. 765 butterflies are found in North America, and 189 butterflies are thought to occur…
Devil’s potato (Echites umbellatus) is a relatively rare woody vine of beach strand and, further south, pine rocklands. It grows only on the southeast coast of Florida and only as far north as Brevard County. Seeing it in flower at…
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Devil's potato (Echites umbellatus), a.k.a rubbervine, is an uncommon plant of the coastal strand in Indian River River County and is shown above at Treasure Shores Park on a 6/3/2017 field trip surrounded by the leaves of beach dune sunflower…
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