Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
People display diversity & so do plants in Nature (as opposed to intentional cultivation). Donna Winter (Class of 2016) shared two photos that demonstrate this diversity. She took the picture above of the flower of a Faey's palafox (Palafoxia faeyi)…
Fran Robinson (Class of 2018) sent this photo of a gall on her white crownbeard (Verbesina virginica) plant. This gall likely is the handiwork of a gall midge (Neolasioptera verbesinae). Its species name, verbesinae, speaks to its fidelity to the genus Verbesina.…
The leaves of a very few of the simpsons stoppers that we saw on our walk at the Captain Forester Preserve were curiously pock marked -- likely the work of a gall midge that remains unnamed but was reported as…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 