The list of Florida’s invasive species goes beyond reptiles and plants. Many insects and rodents we consider household pests are also invasive species.   These insects and rodents that invade households cost U.S. homeowners billions of dollars in damages and thousands of dollars a year in pest control products and services.Continue Reading

With about 200,000 migrant farmworkers in Florida, UF/IFAS Extension and the UF College of Medicine will screen as many as possible for various health conditions and give them nutrition information to help improve access to much-needed health care. First stop, Wimauma. Then, they hope, the rest of Florida.  As partContinue Reading

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is urging farmers to participate in a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) study on the pandemic’s impact on agriculture and aquaculture businesses. The study will help inform government decisions on disaster relief and recovery. “This unprecedented pandemic is taking a tollContinue Reading

On Friday afternoon, University of South Florida Police Department received notification of a non-student female who fell from an upper level of the Beard Garage at USF Tampa. USF Police say the victim was a 25-year old Port Richey resident and a University of Florida (UF) graduate student completing herContinue Reading