What
Everglades Key False Buttonweed (Spermacoce neoterminalis)Observer
afranckDescription
B. terminalis (low-right plant, pine rockland salvage), B. verticillata (spontaneous wild seed in same pot), both local to same area.
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Small-leaf Squarestem (Melanthera parvifolia)Observer
afranckDescription
Salvaged from local lot bulldozed year later
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Grass Moths (Family Crambidae)Observer
afranckDescription
Annually, on Sideroxylon salicifolium.
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Pineland Milkberry (Chiococca parvifolia)Observer
afranckDescription
C. alba (left, disturbed hammock), C. pinetorum (pine rockland)
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Everglades Key False Buttonweed (Spermacoce neoterminalis)Observer
afranckDescription
Side by side, larger flowers B. terminalis (from pine rockland remnant), smaller B. verticillata (disturbed area).
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Dubious Tiger Moth (Spilosoma dubia)Observer
afranckDescription
Feeding on cultivated Rhipsalis baccifera
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Groundselbush Beetle (Trirhabda bacharidis)Observer
afranckDescription
On Baccharis halimifolia along brackish marsh of bay
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Gall and Forest Midges (Family Cecidomyiidae)Observer
afranckDescription
Leaf gall on Pisonia aculeata; collected 26 Jan, reared in Gainesville in moist paper bag.
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Tribe PhycitiniObserver
afranckDescription
1-2 cm long; in a bag of cactus seeds and dried cactus pulp.