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An endangered mussel bounces back in the Apalachicola River - The WFSU Ecology Blog (opens the original)
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After the divers suit up, they each grab a mesh bag. I tell them that they look like they’re going scalloping and Dr. Nathan Johnson says that, actually, he had done just that over the weekend. Recreational and professional lives align. Scallops in Crystal River over the weekend, freshwater mussels in the Apalachicola River today. Nathan is a mussel biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He’s joining a team from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and student divers from the Florida State Un
Killers in a North Florida Garden (Another predator story) - The WFSU Ecology Blog (opens the original)
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This past weekend, many of us stared at our flowers for the Great Southeast Pollinator Census. We saw bees and butterflies, of course. Maybe you added a few ticks in the “Flies” or “Wasps” boxes. Did anyone see “Other Insects?” What I want to know, more than anything else, is whether anyone saw their pollinators devoured by those other insects. Or a spider. Or, perhaps, devoured by another pollinator. If you’ve clicked on pollinator content on the WFSU Ecology Blog before, you might wonder, “Wha
Mushrooms and other Fungi in Florida | Coast to Canopy - The WFSU Ecology Blog (opens the original)
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The day we recorded this podcast episode, I set a record for the least amount of ground covered in a WFSU Ecology field outing. As one of my guests told me, you don’t burn a lot of calories as a mycologist. We spent two hours looking for mushrooms at Wakulla Springs State Park, and you can see just how many we found in the banner image above. We walked maybe 100-150 feet. When we think of ecosystems, we think of plants and animals first. Then, during the warm and rainy times of year, mushrooms p
Florida Springs, Drought, and Data Centers | Coast to Canopy - The WFSU Ecology Blog (opens the original)
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In 2026, most of Florida experienced Extreme (D3) or Exceptional (D4) Drought, and as of July, this has persisted in many areas. The effects are visible in water bodies connected to the Floridan aquifer. Spring flow is down in the Suwannee River basin, compounding decades of aquifer withdrawals that have placed the Suwannee on the Ten Most Endangered Rivers in the United States list released annually by American Rivers. During the same drought, the output of Wakulla Spring has remained strong wh
We return to Crooked Creek to search for rare bees and other goodies - The WFSU Ecology Blog (opens the original)
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Last year, I discovered a population of rare bees. Melissodes mitchelli specializes in prickly pear flowers, which limits where and when we might find it. I found the bee, by chance, in the Munson Sandhills, the only population of the bee in the Florida panhandle. But north Florida has a few intact sandhill habitats, and prickly pears also grow by beach dunes as well. Naturally, I wanted to find the bee in other locations. In February, we recorded an episode of Coast to Canopy about sandhill res
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