August 29, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it's a big duck from the Southeast with some baggage to unpack, the Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula). Feathers...
August 22, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, it’s the pillar of our floodplain forest community, Cherrybark Oak (Quercus pagoda). Cherrybark Oak is a native tree...
August 15, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the bull’s ire, the bloodshot one-shot bug, the Cow-Killer (Dasymutilla occidentalis). The Eastern Velvet Ant, colloquially called...
August 8, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a spicy shrub that’s a summer safe haven for pineywoods pollinators, Coastal Sweet Pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)....
August 1, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the vocalist of the valley, the flitter over the floodplain, the Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens). The Acadian...
July 25, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have another of our large and lavish lavender legumes, Atlantic Pigeonwings (Clitoria mariana). Atlantic Pigeonwings is a...
July 18, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the hovering hunter lurking on every wetland’s edge, the Common Green Darner (Anax junius). The Common Green...
July 11, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a wildflower that’s a feast for pollinators, Savanna Mountain-Mint (Pycnanthemum flexuosum). Here in the South Carolina...
July 4, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the gray-green window hopper, the Squirrel Treefrog (Hyla squirella). The Squirrel Treefrog is found throughout the coastal...
