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A C Moore Herbarium offers resouces via its website
One of the features at U S C’s A C Moore Herbarium that I find fascinating is at their website.
3 years, 10 months ago
"Rattlesnake plantain"
Another of the native orchids Herrick Brown, curator of the A C Moore Herbarium at U S C talked about when he joined us for a program was the rattles…
3 years, 10 months ago
Orchids in South Carolina?
Orchids in South Carolina? Yes, we do have orchids although they have their own special charm which is more subtle than some of the drop dead gorgeou…
3 years, 10 months ago
A. C. Moore Herbarium
Dr. Herrick Brown, the curator at the A. C. Moore Herbarium, will help identify plants for you...
3 years, 10 months ago
Why fireflies flash
It may be that fireflies first started glowing to warn off predators that they contain a toxin and taste horrible.
3 years, 11 months ago
The beauty of 'lightening bugs'
Once you discover the natural phenomena of our diverse state ecosystems, your world gets wider and wider without leaving home.
3 years, 11 months ago
Vanishing fireflies
When I was young, we had lots of fireflies in our Columbia backyard in the summer. But when we went to camp or my grandparent’s summer retreat in Sal…
3 years, 11 months ago
Synchronous firefly displays
Agent Carmen Ketron, recently on our SCETV program Making It Grow, told us she’d seen the synchronous firefly display at the Congaree National Park. …
3 years, 11 months ago
Harry Hampton and the Congaree National Park
Our state and nation owe Harry Hampton a great debt for his love of wildlife and years of work promoting that the Beidler Tract not be logged but ins…
3 years, 11 months ago
Farming sunflowers in the US
It wasn’t until Russian Mennonites came to the northern parts of the US and Canada in the late nineteenth century that sunflowers became a crop of in…
3 years, 11 months ago