Tag: avocados

Whole avocado fruit sliced in half to show inner flesh and pit.

Holy Guacamole, It’s Almost Avocado Season!

by Paul Roberts
April 20, 2026

Avocado trees are a popular choice in south Florida landscapes, and even farther north. When I first moved to Gainesville, my roommate had two trees, though the potted one disappeared one night, thus proving their popularity. Avocados are ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Amy Simonne, Avocado, Avocados, Carlos Balerdi, Department Of Family Youth And Community Sciences, Guacamole, Ian Maguire, Jonathan H. Crane, Landscape Trees, Linda Bobroff, South Florida
Left image: Sisi Chen examining tropical hibiscus. Center Image: Marielle de Moraes Berto studying phoretic mites of the Ambrosia beetle. Right image: graphic for the UF/IFAS Tropical Research & Education Center.

Student Spotlight: Saving Florida’s avocados- a potential biocontrol

by moniquescoggin
April 14, 2026

Marielle de Moraes Berto is a fourth year PhD candidate in Dr. Daniel Carrillo’s tropical fruit entomology lab at the UF/IFAS Tropical Research & Education Center (TREC). Marielle is a native of Piracicaba, Brazil where she studied Biological ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Fruits & Vegetables, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Acarology, Avocados, Biological Control, Entomology, Tropical Fruits

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