by Rich Leighton | Nov 12, 2020 | Florida Nature Facts, Florida Nature Photography, Insects, Interesting Nature Facts, Invertebrates, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
While bees are the current darlings of the invertebrate world, drone flies deserve a lot of credit as well. Not only do these cousins to mosquitoes, houseflies and horseflies live in almost complete obscurity in the public eye, these bee-mimicking insects play an...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 7, 2020 | Birds, Florida Nature Facts, Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
The Eastern kingbird mostly eats flying insects during the summer in North America and maintains a breeding territory that it defends vigorously against all other kingbirds. In the winter along the Amazon, however, it has a completely different lifestyle: it travels...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 13, 2020 | Birds, Florida Nature Facts, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
To cool their nests in hot weather, stilts use their belly feathers to carry water to the nests, sometimes making more than a hundred trips a day. VISIT THE BIRDS GALLERIES MORE FLORIDA NATURE FACTS Florida Nature Facts is a series about interesting facts about...
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