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Category Archives: What is this?

What spider is this? (05-2012)

July 30, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Kevin Zansler, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2012. Does anyone know what species this Araneidae is?  The obvious red on legs 1 & II should be a […]

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What is this?

Pestalotiopsis or what?

July 30, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Top of leaf.Bottom of leaf Photos by Bob Thomas, Chiquibul Education Centre, Las Cuevas, Cayo District, Belize, May 2012. Leaves with this circular pattern were common along the trails at […]

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Fungi, What is this?

Prickly Yellow, Zanthozylum ekmanii

July 25, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

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, […]

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Vascular Plants, What is this?

What Katydid? (11-2008)

July 25, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Bob Thomas, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad, November 2008.

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Insects, What is this?

Terrestrial Utricularia species

July 25, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Vascular Plants, What is this?

Cicada mound

July 25, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Both Photos by Bob Thomas, November 2011. These mounds, or turrets, are constructed by an unobserved cicada species. They and many others were observed in Tambopata National Park, Peru, in […]

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Insects, What is this?

What spider with egg case? (05-2012)

July 25, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Bob Thomas, taken at Chiquibul Education Centre, Las Cuevas, Belize, May 2012. Spider on the right on the web (a little over exposed) with brown egg case hanging […]

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Spiders & Relatives, What is this?

Whose eggs are these? (05-2008)

July 25, 2012by rathomas49 Leave a comment

Photo by Bob Thomas, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2008.

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Insects, What is this?

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?

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