Pepper, a feline owned by John Lednicky, a virologist at the University of Florida, recently discovered orthoreovirus on a dead rodent he had caught. Orthorevirus is a viral genus that’s known to ...

Pepper’s last contribution to science was in May 2021, when he brought home a common cotton mouse carrying a type of ...

Meanwhile, pepper trees continue their takeover of the Everglades and other Florida habitats. "It's obviously something we've got to get a handle on," Cuda said.

Brazilian pepper tree flowers are particularly important to Florida beekeepers because the trees, being from the Southern Hemisphere, bloom in the fall.

A: Brazilian pepper, also known as Schinus terebinthifolius, is grown as a desirable ornamental and crop tree in the western U.S. Here in Florida, it is a prolific and invasive weed.

Senator Pepper, from the less gilded purlieus of northwest Florida, stands by everything Franklin Roosevelt has ever done or presumably will do.

Florida's iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they become ill.

Biologists may soon have another biological weapon in their war against the infamous Brazilian pepper tree: an army of jumping plant lice. These tiny insects — called Calophya Latiforceps ...

A Windsor resident illegally removed mangrove trees from his Sebastian waterfront property, polluting the Indian River Lagoon ...

When my family moved to Florida in the early '50s, the property purchased by my parents included strange and wonderful things like pecan trees, crape myrtles, a chinaberry tree (oh, no!), and figs ...

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