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A gigantic beehive, swarming with thousands of bees, was removed from a tree at a family’s home in Orlando, Florida. The bees were relocated elsewhere and the hive was melted down, according to ABC News. A beekeeper said that as many as 80,000 bees were housed in the mammoth hive. Read more here: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1883670-watch-gigantic-100-pound-beehive-removed-from-florida-tree/

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – An experiment in regrowing forests of the world’s oldest trees led environmentalists this week to climb a nine-story tall, 2,000-year-old cypress in central Florida known as Lady Liberty. After plucking cuttings from her crown, climbers packed them on ice and shipped the specimens overnight to the nonprofit Archangel Ancient Tree Archive’s

A Florida resident was running at Robinson Preserve Park, in Bradenton, when they thought they saw a fallen tree branch. After a second look, the runner discovered the branch was actually a boa constrictor and notified park officials. The officials called Wildlife Inc., which sent two workers to capture the 100-pound red-tailed boa. The snake’s demeanor

There was some wild weather during Friday’s thunderstorm that proved to be dangerous in some areas. In South Tampa along San Juan Street, a huge tree came crashing through an engaged couple’s home. The home David Kahn shares with his fiancée was a mess Friday afternoon. Read more here: http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/2016/01/22/7-ton-tree-crashes-into-south-tampa-home/79188586/

CRYSTAL RIVER — Volunteer Kathy Lemmer was telling a group of onlookers last month about Three Sisters Springs, explaining its hydrology and history with manatees, when one of the lumbering oafs emerged from the warm springs waters, lips flapping wide, and started munching on a tree. Read more here: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/rare-video-shows-hungry-manatee-eating-from-tree-at-three-sisters-springs/2265024

Sneezing? Coughing? Feeling a slight tickle in your throat? There’s a reason: Tree pollen is upon us. The Tampa Bay region is in the midst of a “very severe” allergy season, said Dr. Richard Lockey, an allergist and distinguished health professor at the University of South Florida. “People are having all sorts of problems,” he

At about 12:30 a.m. Friday morning, Tom Ryan awoke to a noise he never will forget.“It’s hard to describe. It was like screaming steel,” he said. “It brought me right out of my bed.”The sound was the metal roof being ripped off the attached shed on his mobile home in Country Aire Estates, a seniors-only

Florida’s citrus growers say as much as 90 percent of their acreage and 80 percent of their trees are infected by the deadly greening disease, which is making a huge dent in the state’s $10.7 billion citrus industry, a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences survey shows. The survey, conducted in

Springtime in South Florida means the bloom of those little yellow flowers on trees across the region. Those are tabebuia trees (pronounced tah-beh-BOO-ya). We spoke with Lee County Horticulture Agent Stephen H. Brown about the tabebuia tree and how long we can expect its colorful flowers. The most popular one is commonly called the yellow