Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
National Pollinator Awareness Week overlaps with National Mosquito Control Awareness Week, which began on Sunday, June 21, Father's Day. The American Mosquito Control Association is the sponsor of National Mosquito Control Awareness Week, and they promote the 3 D's: ...…
The long tubular flowers of coralbean (Erythrina herbacea) are pollinated by hummingbirds and 'long-tongued' butterflies. Different shaped flowers (& floral colors) attract different kinds of pollinators, so plant a variety of shapes & colors of flowers in your landscape. Coralbeans…
At Audubon House volunteers relocated giant leather ferns (Acrostichum daeniofolium) to the low areas of the dry retention pond and replaced them with comely coonties (Zamia floridana) graciously donated by Robin Pelensky of Surlaterre Landscape Architecture. Coonties already are planted…
The simpsons stopper (Myrcinathes fragrans) planted at the southwest corner of the Audubon House is flowering copiously. Its fragrant, multi-stamened flowers attract a plethora of pollinators. Upon it was a metallic blue-green fly, likely a hairy maggot blowfly (Chrysomya rufifacies),…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 