Palmetto Tortoise Beetle

May 23, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a bejeweled beetle in a thatch hat, the Palmetto Tortoise Beetle (Hemisphaerota cyanea). The Palmetto Tortoise...

Yarrow

May 16, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re hosting a globe-trotting cosmopolitan herb, Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium). The genus Achillea, the Yarrows, has well over...

Swainson’s Warbler

May 9, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the king of the cane, the piper over the palms, the Swainson’s Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii). Past...

Red Mulberry

May 2, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we look longingly towards the bountiful boughs of Red Mulberry (Morus rubra). Red Mulberry is a small midstory...

Banded Watersnake

April 25, 2025

All photos are of Banded Watersnakes (Nerodia fasciata) This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’ve stumbled upon the mock moccasin, the Banded Watersnake (Nerodia...

Beach Sunflower

April 18, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we find swaying in the sea breeze the blooms of Beach Sunflower (Helianthus debilis). Beach Sunflower, sometimes called...

Lettered Olive

April 11, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we find washed ashore a scribbled scroll of shell telling a tale from our natural history, the Lettered...

Bluff Oak

April 4, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have an imperiled tree that, like sand sliding off a bluff, is silently slipping away from our...

Summer Tanager

March 28, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s our other red bird, the Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra). Draw a line to a branched tine high...

Goldenclub

March 21, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s an early to rise and always dry, wetland wildflower, Goldenclub (Orontium aquaticum). Goldenclub is found throughout the...

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