Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Many thanks to Dave Fuss, Indian River Land Trust (IRLT) Director of Stewardship, for leading a wonderful walk at the recently opened Oyster Bar Marsh Conservation Area. Indian River County purchased much of the property in 2001, and the IRLT…
Pictured above is a mangrove buckeye (Junonia genoveva) that Bob Montanaro and I saw yesterday on the mosquito control dike at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area when he was taking photographs for educational posters for the soon-to-be completed Audubon House.…
Male flowers of saltbush (Baccharis halimifolia) lack the sensational white silkiness of female flowers. Both male and female flowers are attractive to a variety of pollinating insects, including butterflies (like the mangrove buckeye pictured below) and bees (look closely) ...
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 