Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
At the beginning of the (north) Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) trail grows a great grouping of lancewood trees (Damburneya coriacea). They have a very vertical growth habit and can grow to be from 20 - 45' tall and usually…
The devastating damage caused by the deadly combination of laurel wilt and the redbay ambrosia beetle is unmistakable and is shown above in a photo taken in May of 2008 on Highway A1A. This invasive disease carried by an invasive…
A plant gall is an abnormal outgrowth of plant tissue caused by a "gall-maker", which could be an insect, mite, virus, nematode or fungus. The inter-relationship between plant and gall-maker is complex, very specific, and developed over eons. The relationship…
Read More It’s a Bug Eat Bug World Out There – Even in a Gall
Tom Wilson (Class of 2017) shared this stupendous photo of a rain clouds and a rainbow at Treasure Shores Park prior to our field trip there on 7-21-2018. The early bird gets the worm (or the rainbow). Treasure Shores park…
