When we visited the South Prong Slough on 6-23-24 on a walk led by Friends of the St. Sebastian River President Tim Glover, we saw lots of eastern lubber grasshoppers (Romalea microptera) on a variety of plants including water hickory…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
When we visited the South Prong Slough on 6-23-24 on a walk led by Friends of the St. Sebastian River President Tim Glover, we saw lots of eastern lubber grasshoppers (Romalea microptera) on a variety of plants including water hickory…
Gumbo limbo (Bursera simarouba) are burly big trees, usually multi-trunked. Only a few are found at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, youngish trees "seeded" by birds after the Christmas freeze of 1989 that brought bone-chilling temperatures well below freezing and…