Southern Black Widow

September 2, 2022

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the most feared arthropod in all the south, the Southern Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans). The Southern Black...

Sundews

August 26, 2022

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, it’s a small, sticky, bug-eating set of plants: the Sundews of genus Drosera. Sundews are one of our...

True Frogs

August 19, 2022

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday were listening in for the long-legged locals of genus Lithobates, the True Frogs. The members of the genus...

Saltmarsh Morning-Glory

August 12, 2022

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a magenta flower of the morning marsh, Saltmarsh Morning-Glory (Ipomoea sagittata). Saltmarsh Morning-Glory is an herbaceous twining...

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...

Elms

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...

Laughing Gull

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....

Gulf Coast Swallow-wort

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...

Paper Wasps

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...

Poison-Ivy

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...

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