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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.
Nutmeg & its aril: mace, Myristica fragrans
Photos by Bob Thomas, Grande Riviere, Trinidad, June 2004.Photo by Bob Thomas, Trinidad, June 1988. Nutmeg (the nut) and mace (the red aril that is attached to the nutmeg within […]
Neotropical River Crab
Photo by Frank Jordan. This crab was found in the Rio Grande, San Miguel Village, Toledo District, Belize, in May 2008.
Ixtuculil, Mollinedia guatemalensis – Monimiaceae
Photo by Bob Thomas, May 2010. This plant is important in Maya herbal medicine and was growing in Aurora Saqui’s herbal garden in Maya Centre, Stann Creek District, Belize. For […]
Tropical Natural History 