Millipedes, Diplopoda
Photo by Bob Thomas, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Stann Creek District, Belize, May 2005. Photo by Bob Thomas, Caracol, Cayo District, Belize, May 2004. Millipedes are common in rainforests and […]
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Macuna beans, Macuna pruriens
Photos by Bob Thomas, San Miguel Village, Toledo District, Belize, April 2004. Macuna beans are now used in San Miguel by the milpa farmers to nourish the soil with nitrogen […]
Mosaic flower, Ludwigia sedioides
Photos taken by Bob Thomas, Rio Matiyure, Hato El Cedral, Apure, Venezuela, June 1991. This is a lovely aquatic plant with rosettes of diamond-shaped leaves. It is rooted in the […]
Prickly Yellow, Zanthozylum ekmanii
Photo by Bob Thomas, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Stann Creek District, Belize, May 2003. There are 7 or 8 species of Zanthozylum in Belize. This one has long, flattened spines, […]
What Katydid? (11-2008)
Photo by Bob Thomas, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad, November 2008.
Wax-tail leafhopper, Pterodictya reticularis
Both photos by Bob Thomas, taken in a cacao plantation, Tortuguero, Costa Rica, February 1986. Another name for this species is lantern fly. Many leafhopper have wax producing cells which […]
Paper wasp nests, Polistes
Photo by Bob Thomas, Pilenque, Costa Rica, February 1986. Photo by Bob Thomas, Simla (Wm. Beebe Research Station), Trinidad, June 2001.Photo by Bob Thomas, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad, June […]
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 […]
Bull horn acacia, Acacia sp.: symbiotic ants & signature of doctrines
Tropical Natural History 