Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Sister storms -- Hurricane Frances (9-5-2004) and Hurricane Jeanne (9-26-2004) -- devastated the canopy at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, shown above and below at the beginning of 2005. Volunteers worked diligently to respond to the surge in vines and…
It's November of 2000, and Dr. Nancy Coile is teaching a basic botany class in the Boathouse of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL). This photograph is the oldest photograph from the FMEL volunteer nature stewardship class. How swiftly technology…
Ken Gonyo (Class of 2012 ) "captured" these air potato beetles (Lilioceris cheni) reproducing at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) yesterday. Thanks to Dan Farley (Class of 2015), Vernon Chestine (Class of 2016), and Ken for continuing the weekly Wednesday…
At Cypress Bend Community Preserve on 4-10-2016, Donna Winter (Class of 2016) pointed out this distinctively shaped partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata). Like many native plants, this species is very variable in form. This partridge pea, growing in the white sand…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 