Tag: insects
January First Friday with Florida First Detector
January 9, 2023
Recap of January First Friday with Florida First Detector In January, we talked all about stink bugs and other hemipteran insects. We focused on invasive insects in the subfamily Heteroptera. The subfamily Heteroptera includes not just ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Forests, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Professional Development, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS TeachingTags: Biosecurity, Early Detection, FFD22-23, FloridaFirstDetector, Hemiptera, Insects, Invasive Species, SeminoleCountyAg, Spotted Lantern Fly, Stink Bugs
Tips from the help desk…Bats in your belfry, October 2022
November 26, 2022
Tips from the Help Desk... Bats in your belfry by David Austin Residential Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Volunteer Coordinator Bats are known for their scary Halloween personas. That is if bats can have personas. Nevertheless, ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension, , WildlifeTags: Bats, Conservation, Highlands County, Highlands Horticulture Digest, Hometown Gardener, Insects, Master Gardener Volunteers, Mosquito, PolliNATION, Tips From The Help Desk, Wildlife
Insects: A Halloween Treat for Trying
October 26, 2022
Trick or treat, and take your pick: a chocolate-covered cricket or a waxworm caterpillar? Even though Halloween is a time to eat candy, it’s also an opportunity to try creepy crawlers like crickets, grasshoppers and mealworms. Rebecca ... READ MORE
Category: Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS TeachingTags: Department Of Entomology And Nematology, Entomophagy, Insects, Rebecca Baldwin
Good News: Dieunomia Sweat Bees Are Here for Fall!
September 22, 2022
Have you noticed small mounds of dirt forming in your garden or landscape recently or flying insects hovering just above the ground especially near flowering plants? If so, this time of year (September) is when we see these ground-nesting ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home LandscapesTags: Bees, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Gardening, Insects, Polkgardening
![a pollen-coated bee sits on a yellow-and-brown flower. [credit: pixabay.com, joszef szabo]](https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/sarasotaco/wp-content/blogs.dir/40/files/2022/09/2022_Chems_beePollenFlower01_pixabaySzaboJozsef_CROP1338x357TINY.png)
Pollinators: it’s not all about the bees
September 14, 2022
Do you enjoy a hot cup of coffee in the morning? Or a perfectly ripe watermelon for dessert? Perhaps a tasty blueberry, strawberry, and banana smoothie? If so, then thank a pollinator. Pollinators play a vital role in supporting commercial ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Natural ResourcesTags: Biorational, Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Insects, Pest, Pesticide, Pgm_Chemicals, Pollinator, Pollinators
Tasks and Duties throughout the Life Cycle of a Worker Honey Bee
August 22, 2022
Have you ever wondered where the saying, “busy like a bee” comes from? Well, it comes from the worker honey bee - known to be the most active bee of their species, Apis millifera, as they are faced with many different tasks and duties throughout ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Camp, Clubs & Volunteers, Community Volunteers, Conservation, Crops, Events, Farm Management, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Forests, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Livestock, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Recreation, Relationships & Family, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching, Wildlife, Work & LifeTags: Acknowledge, Apis Mellifera, Bugs, Colonies, Colony, Cycle, Drones, Duties, Duty, Eggs, Honey, Honey Bee, Insects, Laying Workers, Life, Life Cycle, Nectar, Needs To Bee Protected, Pollen, PolliNATION, Pollinator, Pollinators, Queen, Save The Bees, Task, Tasks, Worked, Worker Honey Bee, Workers, Working
Don’t Worry, Bee Happy
August 10, 2022
The European honey bee The European honey bee has been in the United States for a long time. Brought here in the early 1600s by, you guessed it, Europeans. The Honey bee may as well be considered native since they've been here as long ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension,Tags: Agriculture, Bees, Classes, Gardening, Highlands County, Highlands Horticulture Digest, Hometown Gardener, Honey, Insects, Master Gardener Volunteers, PolliNATION, Pollinator Plants, UF/IFAS Extension
Tips from the Help Desk… Lovebugs, what’s there to love? June 2022
July 14, 2022
by David Austin, the Hometown Gardener ... READ MORE
Category: Horticulture, Pests & Disease,Tags: Highlands County, Highlands Horticulture Digest, Hometown Gardener, Insects, Master Gardener Volunteers, Tips From The Help Desk, UF/IFAS Extension