Norm Douglas

Those are completely bizarre. I had no idea they turned into pads with wax fingers.

Whitefly…

Same.
I also try to indoctrinate them into holding their hand lenses up close to their eyeballs, instead of holding them at arm’s length.

Rays on Ray Day, right?

(That's a wild pattern BTW, messes with my brain)

Ask Winfield Joad.

Did you see it here in Gainesville? We saw a bunch at Selby Garden in Sarasota last month. Cycad feeders…

We must all hang together or we will all hang separately.

Thunderstorm got me trapped in my little greenhouse with two dogs and a beer.

Now $5,900. That’s 3X the growth of median household income.

University of Arizona was ~$950 per semester in-state when I started in ‘91.

Atala, Eumaeus atala, at Selby Botanical Garden in Sarasota. Larvae feed on cycads!

"If you don't know anything, you don't have a problem."

Measuring biodiversity and ecosystem health is crucial to knowing how rapidly decline is taking place and if anything we are doing is helping to mitigate our impact. If this passes, we will be flying blindly into oblivion.

As a Norm, this is officially the end of an era.

I love this account.

That’s neat.

this is the way

Making woodpeckers is the main thing Quercus hemisphaerica is good for.

iNat says this is Ammophila pictipennis. How does this waist make any sense?

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Florida gators basketball championship t-shirt with cacti growing on a mountainous coastline.

Closeup of a saguaro 🌵 cactus. This species doesn’t occur within 800 miles of San Antonio, Texas.

Merch for UF’s national championship, which was played in San Antonio, Texas. Whoever chose the background was absolutely trolling this botanist.

Saguaro-itis strikes again.

Rhododendron canescens, Florida Pinxter Azalea.

Our pinxterflower is popping nicely too. Love wild azaleas.

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Efficiency.

You can’t sell timber if no one is buying. This is like opening up drilling in the arctic. No one is bidding. Sure they’ll sell a little timber, but it will be taxpayer subsidized timber.

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start

Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

Cool to see three liverwort species in one shot!

That was my thought.

Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park.

Some UF Biology students who journeyed from Florida to study the biodiversity of the desert southwest- here completing an incredible hike of Arch Canyon, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. This class doesn’t happen w/o our public lands!