Terrestrial Utricularia species
Photo by Bob Thomas, taken in Henri Pettier National Park, Venezuela, June 1991. The genus Utricularia is composed of insectivorous species, mostly aquatic. This specimen is of a terrestrial species […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
Bull horn acacia, Acacia sp.: symbiotic ants & signature of doctrines
Kissing Bug, Triatoma dimidiata
Tortoise shell beetle
Terrestrial Leech
Photo by Bob Thomas, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad, November 2004. Terrestrial leeches are rarely encountered by us in Trinidad. Their definitive identification relies on a specimen in hand by […]
Termites
Photo by Bob Thomas, San Miguel Village, Toledo District, Belize, May 2003. These termites were about to take flight from a post inside the late Pablo Ack’s home in the […]
Spider wasp & prey
Spider lycosid
Photo by Bob Thomas, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2010. Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Cockscomb, Belize, May 2012. Female wolf spiders carry their cocoon using their spinnerets. Once the spiderlings emerge, […]
Water spangles, Salvinia sp
Photo by Bob Thomas, Simla (Wm. Beebe Research Station), Trinidad, November 1994. These were growing on small research ponds at Simla. Salvinia is a highly invasive species that is wreaking […]
Ornithocephalus gladiatus
Photo by Bob Thomas, Chiqubul Education Centre, Las Cuevas, Cayo District, Belize, May 2012. Several of these where found blooming along the trails. Very small, but lovely, flowers.
Tropical Natural History 