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[travellingfoodie]

Where To Eat in West Volusia - 10+ Places To Eat & Drink! #TravellingFoodie #VisitWestVolusia @WestVolusiaFLA @VisitFlorida @CityofDeLand @MainStDeLand

[love-elizabeth]

Yesterday I led my first guided hike! After one of my instructors mentioned that he always likes to have master naturalists lead events, I thought that would be a perfect opportunity for me to take the final project idea from my @fmnpofficial uplands course and expand it into a hike format. 🥾 So grateful for my friends and their loved ones that came out yesterday to give me some practice with my @hopeforfloridaproject hike concept. It went well, and I’m excited to be leading more hikes in the future! 🥾 (I’m doing another rehearsal before I schedule any formal hikes—if you’re free, join me tomorrow morning at 10am outside Lyonia Environmental Center! It’ll be about 90 minutes, and we’ll be walking a little under a mile on sugar sand trails in direct sun with about 40ft of elevation.) 🥾 📸: @sunflower_eyes_ 🌱 💙 🍄 #florida #hike #nature #naturelovers #outsideisfree #naturalist #volusiacounty #LoveFL #westvolusiaFLA #visitwestvolusia #oldfloridanewvibe #lyoniapreserve #deltona #deltonafl @visitwestvolusia @countyofvolusia @lec.friends (at Lyonia Nature Preserve) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnuqneYuuv0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[barbaraumbel]

Pendant with abalone and pearly Delphinula shell ready for this weekend’s DeLand Fall Festival of the Arts. We will be in space #112. 🐚🐚🐚 #delandartfestival #delandartmuseum #delandfallfestivalofthearts #deland #westvolusia #volusiacounty #delandfl #visitwestvolusia #abalone #iolite #sapphirebeads #motherofpearl #amethyst #mossagate #freshwaterpearls #delandartfestival #delandartmuseum #delandfallfestivalofthearts #deland #westvolusia #volusiacounty #delandfl #visitwestvolusia #barbaraumbel #urchinjewel #umbels #indianharbourbeach #spacecoast #shesellsseashells #shelljewelry #seashelljewelry #handmadejewelry #contemporaryjewelry #artjewelry #popupshop #artfestival @delandfallfestivalofthearts Fabricated from Argentium silver and 14kt gold, with abalone shell fragment from @riogrande. Freshwater pearls, sapphire and amethyst beads also from Rio Grande. #riojeweler (at DeLand, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5LCOgLBDxu/?igshid=zajlinwwahmf

[jakkic]

Stetson Mansion by VisitWestVolusia

[travellingfoodie]

Where To Eat in West Volusia - 10+ Places To Eat & Drink! #TravellingFoodie #VisitWestVolusia @WestVolusiaFLA @VisitFlorida @CityofDeLand @MainStDeLand

[travellingfoodie]

Where To Eat in West Volusia - 10+ Places To Eat & Drink! #TravellingFoodie #VisitWestVolusia @WestVolusiaFLA @VisitFlorida @CityofDeLand @MainStDeLand

[travellingfoodie]

Where To Eat in West Volusia - 10+ Places To Eat & Drink! #TravellingFoodie #VisitWestVolusia @WestVolusiaFLA @VisitFlorida @CityofDeLand @MainStDeLand

[travellingfoodie]

Where To Eat in West Volusia - 10+ Places To Eat & Drink! #TravellingFoodie #VisitWestVolusia @WestVolusiaFLA @VisitFlorida @CityofDeLand @MainStDeLand

[travellingfoodie]

Where To Eat in West Volusia - 10+ Places To Eat & Drink! #TravellingFoodie #VisitWestVolusia @WestVolusiaFLA @VisitFlorida @CityofDeLand @MainStDeLand

[travellingfoodie]

Where To Eat in West Volusia - 10+ Places To Eat & Drink! #TravellingFoodie #VisitWestVolusia @WestVolusiaFLA @VisitFlorida @CityofDeLand @MainStDeLand

[love-elizabeth]

As the weather cools off in Florida, I encourage everyone to visit a new place of nature if possible, whether it’s a city park, nature preserve, state park, natural spring, national or state forest, or something else.

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Please make sure you’re enjoying nature responsibly, though, and respecting the wildlife! (Take nothing but photos and leave nothing but footsteps, look but don’t touch, etc.)

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#volusiacounty #hiking #getoutside #leavenotrace #florida #nature #naturelovers #outsideisfree #visitwestvolusia #newsmyrnabeach #nsb #pineflatwoods #pinetrees #volusiaforever

@countyofvolusia @visitwestvolusia @visitflorida @loveFL

[love-elizabeth]

Field journal 📔

ID: Hypericum fasciculatum

Common name: Peelbark St. John’s wort, sandweed

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You may have heard of St. John’s wort as a supplement, but that does not come from any of our Florida native species of St. John’s wort. This particular species does contain the hypericin compound that is supposed to be healing in the right dose, but can cause dermatitis or photosensitization if not taken correctly.

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I always wondered why so many plants have “wort” in their name, and the answer is pretty simple: in Old English “wyrt” meant “plant.” At some point, the spelling changed to “wort” and was used commonly until the mid 1600s. So if you have a plant with “wort” in its name, it was probably first described and named more than 300 years ago.

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The Old English “wyrt” actually came from the Germanic word “wurtiz.” In addition to giving us “wyrt,” the word “wurtiz” also evolved into “Wurzel,” which is the modern German word for “root.”

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Shoutout to @geraldsavesflorida whose posts often dig into the language history of species names, which inspires me to do the same in my own research!

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📍Volusia County, FL

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#florida #hike #nature #naturelovers #outsideisfree #naturalist #volusiacounty #LoveFL #botany #westvolusiaFLA #visitwestvolusia #oldfloridanewvibe #stjohnswort #etymology #flawildflowers #autumn #fall #floridanativeplants #flowers #wildflowers @flawildflowerwatch

[love-elizabeth]

A few cool things I saw on my adventure in Volusia County on Thursday.

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Very excited about the spring fishfly and that spider, which were both new species to me! The spider is either a Mecaphesa asperata (Northern crab spider) or a species that isn’t in any of my spider guides. Check out the pic with my hand to see a different part of the plant that spider was on—the spider seems perfectly adapted to just look like a dead section of the false rosemary!

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Also pictured: earthstar fungus, a cactus Hidden Mickey, ghost pipes past their prime, a southern 2-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides), fluffy Garberia, a carpet of deer lichen that looks soft enough to take a nap in, and sunlight streaming through a leaf with impeccable TEXTURE 😍

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#florida #bug #insect #spider #fungus #wetlands #earthstar #mushroom #macro #nature #naturelovers #outsideisfree #cactus #nature_brilliance #fiftyshades_of_nature #scarab #springfishfly @visitwestvolusia @countyofvolusia

[love-elizabeth]

Field journal 📔

ID: Ipomoea sp. (I thiiink it’s cordatotriloba)

Common name: cotton morning glory, tievine

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This is just one of many different types of morning glory. Most morning glories open their blooms fully in the morning and then fade throughout the day. I observed this one at about 9am, so I’m not sure what it would look like later in the day!

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I think the bug in the second picture is a Cycloneda sp. / spotless lady beetle, but I didn’t get a better look at it.

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📍Volusia County, FL

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#florida #hike #nature #naturelovers #outsideisfree #naturalist #volusiacounty #LoveFL #botany #westvolusiaFLA #visitwestvolusia #ipomoea #morningglory #flawildflowers #autumn #fall #floridanativeplants #flowers #wildflowers @flawildflowerwatch

[love-elizabeth]

Field journal 📔

ID: Lobelia sp. (I’m pretty sure it’s Lobelia glandulosa)

Common name: Lobelia (glade lobelia, to be specific, if I got the species correct)

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There are 415 species of Lobelia, and according to the Atlas of Florida Plants, we have 15 of them here in Florida.

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I first learned about lobelias after spotting one in Ohio, so it was exciting once I started to notice them here in Florida.

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I didn’t unearth anything else jaw dropping about this plant, but take special note of the bug perched on this lobelia, because I’ll be making a separate field journal entry for this species soon! Anybody know what type of bug it is? I forgot that members of this superfamily can be so tiny, so this was an adorable reminder!

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📍Volusia County

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#florida #hike #nature #naturelovers #outsideisfree #naturalist #volusiacounty #LoveFL #westvolusiaFLA #visitwestvolusia #oldfloridanewvibe #lobelia #flawildflowers #autumn #fall #floridanativeplants #flowers #wildflowers #beetle #weevil @flawildflowerwatch

[love-elizabeth]

Field journal 📔

ID: Drosera spp.

Common name: sundew

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These carnivorous plants are so cool! What you see in these photos are the leaves. It looks like they have dewdrops on them, but those are actually a sticky substance produced by the plant to catch bugs.

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Once a bug is caught, the leaf will roll up, killing the insect quickly, but sometimes spending weeks digesting the insect.

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Carnivorous plants often grow in soils that are low in nutrients. They consume insects, which provide nutrition that the plants can’t get from the poor soil quality.

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We have 5 native species of sundew in Florida. I think this one is either D. capillaris or D. brevifolia.

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📍Volusia County, FL

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#florida #hike #nature #naturelovers #outsideisfree #naturalist #volusiacounty #LoveFL #westvolusiaFLA #visitwestvolusia #oldfloridanewvibe #sundew #carnivorousplant #flawildflowers #autumn #fall #floridanativeplants #flowers #wildflowers @flawildflowerwatch