Swamp milkweed beetle eggs hatching.

by Rob Diaz de Villegas August 13, 2018

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Finding the First Floridians: New WFSU Documentary

Florida, and north Florida in particular, is a hotspot for underwater prehistoric archeology. Within the last fifteen years, archeologists have been excavating more and more sites, and their findings have been getting international attention. Finding the First Floridians is a story of people making a home in an ice age landscape full of mammoths and mastodons, their descendants adapting to thousands of years of ecological change, and often unstable conditions.

Finding the First Floridians

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iNaturalist became a part of the WFSU Ecology Blog during the EcoCitizen Project in 2019. Since then, we’ve used it to help identify the many plants and animals we see on our shoots. And on the Backyard Blog, we show how it can be used to identify weeds and garden insects, to help figure out what’s beneficial or a possible pest. Below is the iNaturalist profile belonging to WFSU Ecology producer Rob Diaz de Villegas.

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