A Beautiful Two Spotted Bumble Bee Searches for a Meal is a short video of a bumble bee probing several small flowers on a button bush ball while looking for nectar.
Caterpillars Have Weird, Cool Little Gripping Feet explains explains what motivated the author to take this interesting photograph.
Perennial Peanuts Can Make a Beautiful Ground Cover tells the story of how the author spotted and later identified peanut flowers after wondering if peanut plants did flower. It also gives some interesting information about using these nonfruitbearing plants as a ground cover.
Black Stink Bugs are Beautiful and Harmless Little Beetles introduces readers to one of the two types of black stink bugs we have in Florida. This one is a plant eater, but isn’t social, so rarely causes significant damage.Even though it has a wide range not much is known about it’s biology.
How Exciting! Today is International Cat Day! reminds us all the celebrate all life, but today to concentrate on our cats. Cats have been companions for man since the days of the ancient Egyptians, who revered them as Gods. So today show a cat a little TLC.
Honey Bees Have an Incredibly Complex Social Structure
Honey Bees Have an Incredibly Complex Social Structure discusses some basic information about the social structure of a honey bee hive. Some of the information is quite surprising!
A Bright Spring Day with Beautiful Textures and Light is a still life nature photo inspired by light coming from above bringing out the colors and textures of a vine hanging over an old wooden fence.
The Organ Pipe Mud Dauber is Really Great for Gardens explains how this unusual, black wasp helps gardens by pollinating flowers and helps gardeners by killing spiders.
Summer Grape is Very Important to the Florida Ecosystem introduces readers to this native vine. It explains how the edible fruit are consumed by many birds, mammals, and reptiles and how nature uses the vine for shelter and nesting material.
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