Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Sand pines (Pinus clausa) are monooecious: Male and female flowers are on the same plant. Flowers begin to form in early summer but do not become visible until autumn. Male flowers - staminate stobili -- of the sand pines at…
Ken Gonyo sent this photo of a sweet, fresh white gall on coastalplain staggerbush (Lyonia fruticosa) at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. This gall is caused by a fungus and turns red as it matures to be yet another…
This gorgeous gall was like a Christmas ornament on the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area scrub. This gall (or cecidia) on Faey's palafoxia (Palafoxia faeyi) was caused by a gall-making midge (Asphondylia sp.). Note the exit hole below ... A…
Bob Montanaro and I had just sat down on the viewing platform at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, when a juvenile tricolor heron (Egretta tricolor) landed on the railing. Bob could not get to his camera bag without disturbing our…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 