The term "globally endangered" truly applies here. Many plants and animals that live only on the Lake Wales Ridge are endangered species. Some still survive precariously at the edge of extinction ...

We've got the largest population of Florida scrub-jays in public ownership on the Lake Wales Ridge," Butcher said. Making the forest more hospitable to rare species is the focus of an ongoing ...

However, the threatened plant species isn’t the only risk to the bee’s survival. Blue calamintha bees are endemic to Florida, and have only been found in scrub habitat in the Lake Wales Ridge ...

Polk County is close to acquiring another property along the Lake Wales Ridge for conservation ... Aquifer and for a relative lack of invasive species. TAG members reported the presence of ...

A University of Florida researcher has been searching the Lake Wales Ridge for the blue calamintha bee, a species scientists say is unique to one section of Florida. [ Chase Kimmel/University of ...

The metallic navy insect, a blue calamintha bee, had only been previously found in four areas "totaling just 16 square miles of pine scrub habitat at Central Florida's Lake Wales Ridge," the ...

However, the threatened plant species isn’t the only risk to the bee’s survival. Blue calamintha bees are endemic to Florida, and have only been found in scrub habitat in the Lake Wales Ridge ...