Giant Swallowtail & Eastern Pygmy Blue
August 5, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a pair of unrelated but extreme exemplifying butterflies, the Eastern Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) and the...
July 29, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re simply going to be learning about our Elms, genus Ulmus. Here on Edisto Island we have two...
July 22, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, we have the manically cackling seabird, the Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla). Gulls are members of the family Laridae....
July 15, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a salty twining vine with an underappreciated role in coastal Monarch conservation, Gulf Coast Swallowwort (Pattalias...
July 8, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a collection of communally living insects who don’t always make the best neighbors, the Umbrella Paper...
July 1, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the most reviled vine in the Southeast, Poison-Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans). Much maligned, this unsuspecting vine seems...
June 24, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a lemon-lipped homewrecker of a bird, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus). The Yellow-billed Cuckoo, colloquially known...
June 17, 2022
This week on Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a sassy shrub with a soft drink pedigree, Sassafras (Sassafras albidum). Sassafras is a large shrub or...
June 10, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a common but striking butterfly found in grasslands and fields, the Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia). The...
