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New year’s gardening resolutions – spring into 2025 with UF/IFAS resources!

by Ralph Mitchell
December 31, 2024

The New Year is a great time to make some horticultural resolutions that will benefit any landscape.  Let's look at some resources that will make your landscaping experience in Southwest Florida the best in 2025 – we can help! The overarching ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Edis, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Gardening, Landscape, Low Maintenance, Master Gardener Volunteers, Ornamental, Perennial
Earthstar mushrooms (left) and the star topper of a Christmas tree (right).

O Earthstar of Wonder, Earthstar of Potted Plants

by Gillian McGuire
December 19, 2024

While you have undoubtedly seen a star upon a Christmas tree, have you ever seen this star-shaped mushroom growing from the soil of your potted plants? This holiday season, I am reminded of the Earthstar mushroom. Earthstars Are Growing Slightly I ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Ask IFAS, Department Of Plant Pathology, Edis, Holidays, Horticulture Industry, Houseplants, Mushrooms, Plant Pathology Department
Creative Commons logo magnified and in focus on the Creative Commons website

Creative Commons License: A New Era for EDIS Publications

by Diana Hagan (she/her)
February 19, 2024

Starting with new publications and major revisions released after January 1, 2024, UF/IFAS is releasing EDIS publications under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Open-access ... READ MORE

Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Copyright, Creative Commons, Edis, EDIS Authors, EDIS Journal, Open Access, Open Access Publishing, Open Content

¿Qué se requiere para publicar en español en EDIS en 2024? / What is required to publish in Spanish on EDIS in 2024?

by Heidy Ramirez
January 10, 2024

Desde hace más de quince años, nuestro sitio web (ahora diseñado como una revista académica "EDIS" para gestión de manuscritos enviados y "Ask IFAS" para interacción con las audiencias de Extensión) ha contado entre sus publicaciones ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Authors, Edis, Español, Extension, Spanish, Traducción, Translation

Bees survive, ticks don’t: Pros of prescribed fire

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
August 9, 2023

Adding fuel to the argument to use fire as a healthy forest management tool, University of Florida scientists say important pollinators survive the temporary displacement, while a common disease carrier often loses the battle. A pair of documents ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Forests, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Tags: Ask IFAS, Bees, Edis, Fire, Fire Science, Prescribed Burn, Prescribed Fire, Raelene Crandall, Ticks

Scientists urgently seek Florida residents to report nonnative lizards as early detection prevents invasive spread

by Lourdes Mederos
February 14, 2023

The brown basilisk, a nonnative lizard, is gaining ground across South Florida, and University of Florida scientists need more data to determine its status and potential impacts. Wildlife specialists with the UF Institute of Food and ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: #ivegot1.org, Ask IFAS, Brown Basilisk, Citizen Science, Conservation, EDDMaps, Edis, FLorida Museum Of Natural History Herpetology Collection Database, Iguanas, Invasive Species, Ken Gioeli, Lawrence Reeves, Lizards, Lourdes Pérez Cordero, National Invasive Species Awareness Week, Nonnative, Nonnative Lizard, SFYL Hot Topic, Steven Johnson, UF IFAS Invasive Species Council, UF/IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Wildllife
Brown Basilisk courtesy Steve A. Johnson

Nonnative lizard that appears to walk on water thrives in Florida

by Lourdes Mederos
September 7, 2022

Florida has three times as many nonnative established lizards as native ones. Among Florida’s approximately 50 species of nonnative lizards is the brown basilisk, a species now thriving in south and central Florida. In a new peer-reviewed ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Amanda Thompson, Brown Basilisk, Edis, Florida Fish And Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Florida Museum Of Natural History, FLorida Museum Of Natural History Herpetology Collection Database, IFAS NEWS, Ken Gioeli, Lawrence Reeves, Nathan Burkett-Cadena, Nonnative Lizard, Steve Johnson, UF IFAS News, UF News, UF/IFAS Extension St. Lucie County

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