Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Fossil records show that beetles were very abundant more than 300 million years ago. About 40% of the known insects are beetles. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, beetles are "responsible for pollinating 88% of the 240,000 flowering plants globally". Beetles…
Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) flowers attract more than 300 species of pollinators according to Dr. Mark Deyrup of Archibold Biological Station. From saw palmetto European honeybees (Apis mellifera) produce an excellent non-granulating honey. Each inflorescence likely contains several thousand flowers…
Bees, wasps, flies, moths, skippers, butterflies, and other pollinators flock to Flaveria linearis, yellowtop. Fall is the usual time for flowering, but some of the yellowtops donated by Judy Gersony and planted on 5-23-2015 in the Audubon House landscape are…
This pretty-flowered pollinator plant (Phyla nodifolora) has a plethora of common names including turkey tangle fog fruit, frogfruit, Texas frogfruit, capeweed, creeping lip plant, creeping charley and matchweed. Thanks to Bob Montanaro, Pelican Island Audubon Society Office Manager, for this…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 