Last year this giant land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) decided to check out "higher ground" and clambered up the railing to our first floor. Also known as the Great Atlantic land crab, these semi-terrestrial crabs live in burrows -- crab holes…
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Throwback Thursday: Life in the Pits & Treetops 2008
Since the start of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) Volunteer Nature Stewardship class in the Fall of 1998, Dr. George O'Meara, FMEL faculty member then and now Professor Emeritus, has enchanted everyone with his Life in the Pits and…
Life in the Treetops & Pits
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) Professor Emeritus Dr. George O'Meara presented Life in the Pits and Treetops to the 2016 volunteer nature stewardship class on Saturday, 2/6/2016, shown above outside the FMEL Boathouse. Taking a top down approach, Dr. O'Meara…
Crabby & Foul-tempered Frances
Foul-tempered & slow-moving Hurricane Frances made landfall on Hutchinson Island on September 5, 2004, leaving many residents feeling quite crabby and wishing that we could have - like the blue land crabs (Cardisoma guanhumi) - plugged up our burrows to…
