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A beautiful blue sweat bee (Augochlorella) on a turkey tangle frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora). Photo by Brice Claypoole When someone says the...

A machine mines minerals for Mosaic. (Photo by Brice Claypoole) We are driving outside of a small town called Wauchula, in what feels to...

A pelican being treated by Friends of the Pelicans Volunteers, note the bottle of medicine being held in the background. “I’m not sure...

Just before 1:00 PM, we finished packing water bottles and snacks into the car and headed to the Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier. When we...

How can you help the pollinators? Just let this plant grow!

Let’s change our world in which this monarch (Danaus plexippus) could just be collateral damage of our agriculture system, to which,...

Welcome to a regular day in my neighborhood. (Photo by Ali Claypoole) Just this month, much of the western US went up in flames and...

My sister, Coco, and I holding a monarch we tagged. (Photo by Ail Claypoole) We had a pretty productive first day of our third-year...

A noble scoliid wasp. Though wasps are often thought of as aggressive, they are actually quite gentle. In fact, I sat in the middle of a...

This year, Manatee County voters will get the chance to approve a land acquisition referendum. What exactly is this “land acquisition...

American oystercatchers resting on the beach. (Photo by Brice Claypoole) We're so lucky to live near the beach, and we love going there....

Moths are mysterious, magical, beautiful and important, but their also in danger.

UPDATE: A bumble bee (which is a rare sighting in our area) came to the butterfly milkweed! 7/30/2020 The cassius blue butterflies didn’t...

The importance of native plants is in the news all the time. But will you really see more birds, bees and butterflies if you plant them?

Sarasota Bay (photo by Brice Claypoole) This week we had a sewage leak into Sarasota Bay. Millions of gallons of sewage water leaked out...

UPDATE: The Conservation Foundation got the money they needed! They can no longer take donations for this project but you can still...