Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Beginning in the fall of 1998, the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) began to offer a Volunteer Nature Stewardship Class for the adjacent Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). In the early days the class was underwritten by a grant from…
Did you know that the Roundhouse at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL), University of Florida, pictured above, was built to study the flight behavior of mosquitoes? Mosquitoes are more deadly than humans ... Always protect yourself against mosquito biting:…
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It's November of 2000, and Dr. Nancy Coile is teaching a basic botany class in the Boathouse of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL). This photograph is the oldest photograph from the FMEL volunteer nature stewardship class. How swiftly technology…
Seed for scarlet rose mallow (Hibiscus coccineus) was available at last year's plant propagation workshop for volunteers from the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory - Pelican Island Audubon Society class. Thank you to everyone who propagated this plant and brought seedlings…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 