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Yearly Archives: 2012

Ruby-spotted Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillars, Heraclides anchisiades, Family Papilionidae

July 25, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Bob Thomas.  Taken in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2008. This identification is by Dr. Jan Meerman, Green Hills Butterfly Ranch & Botanical Collections, Mountain Pine Ridge […]

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Insects

What caterpillar? (05-2012)

July 25, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Bob Thomas.  Taken in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2012.

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Insects, What is this?

What moth? (05-2010)

July 24, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

This photo was taken in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Stann Creek District, Belize, in May 2010.

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Insects, What is this?

Trinidad Chevron Tarantula, Psalmopoeus cambridgei

July 23, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Asa Wright Nature Center, Trinidad, November 2009. If you look very carefully just to the right of the rear leg viewed here to the upper left, […]

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Spiders & Relatives

Campbell’s toad, Incilus (Bufo) campbelli

July 23, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Bob Thomas, Chiquibul Education Centre, Las Cuevas, Cayo District, Belize, May 2012.Photo by Frank Jordan, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2010. Cambell’s toad is closely related to Incilus (Bufo) valliceps. […]

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Frogs

Selaginella sp.

July 21, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Bob Thomas. This selaginella was not uncommon along the trails at the Chiquibull Education Centre, Las Cuevas, Belize.  

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Nonvascular Plants

Honey Locust tree, Gleditsia triacanthos

July 21, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Bob Thomas, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2008. Gleditsia is a tree genus commonly called honey locusts.  They are members of the family Fabaceae, and have pinnate leaves that are […]

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Vascular Plants

Amplexus in frogs

July 21, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2010. Middle American burrowing toads, Rhinophrynus dorsalis, use inguinal amplexus.  That is, the male always grasps the female in the inguinal area, just […]

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Frogs

Red-rump tarantula, Brachypelma vagans

July 21, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Aimée Thomas, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2011. Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2010. Photo by Aimée Thomas, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, […]

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Spiders & Relatives

Pseudoscorpion

July 21, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment
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