putu enjula Posted May 11, 2008 Report Share Posted May 11, 2008 I thought it might be nice to have a separate thread for everyone to post their animal and insect pictures. Eyelash viper... obviously the red one... ********Angela********** Check out Palmpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefty Posted May 11, 2008 Report Share Posted May 11, 2008 Some critters Larry Davis Time flies like an arrow, But fruit flies like a banana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deezpalms Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Nice critter pics peeps! Enjula, I love that eyelash viper sot! Nice depth of field! Dave Hughson Carlsbad, Ca 1 mile from ocean Zone 10b Palm freaks are good peeps!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Tampa Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 left to right of lefty's pics, american crocodile, ameiva, mountain helmeted iguana Corytophanes sp. (fairly uncommon in most of its range), green iguana (tastes like chicken) Tampa, Florida Zone - 10a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff in St Pete Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Sloth at INBioparque. These are probably my favorite animals in Costa Rica and are very commonly seen in many parts of the country. Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gtlevine Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Did anyone get bitten by Arm Ants down there? How about the Goliath Bird eating Spiders, did anyone see those? Gary Rock Ridge RanchSouth Escondido5 miles ENE Rancho Bernardo33.06N 117W, Elevation 971 Feet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Thats my hand. Yep, its what you think, the guide said it should be no probl........................................................................... ................................................................................. .......................................................................... thunk. Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Did anyone get bitten by Arm Ants down there? How about the Goliath Bird eating Spiders, did anyone see those? Gary I didn't get bitten by any "Arm Ants". But I did get bitten by something on my way to the Jacuzzi on a couple nights..... interpret as you wish. either way, it itched, I scratched it. Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 "And here is de Viper dat I wuz de foist one to spot!" (I then let everyone else I saw know too after I snapped this pic), I only found it when we stopped ONEMORE time to discuss the difference between Iriartea and Socratea roots. You think its easy... wait till they are 40+ feet tall, the roots look similar on some.... Anyway, most of the group moved on and I was staring at all the roots and then I spotted a "slimy" root. Heres how I first saw it, I shouted snake as I took the picture. I should add the roots were about 1 1/2 - 2 inches in diameter. Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Some others from the last day at Pozo Azul. Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Thanks for starting this topic Angela. Here are some butterflies. Click Here to Join the IPS Today! Click Here to Renew Your IPS Membership! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Here are two more. Click Here to Join the IPS Today! Click Here to Renew Your IPS Membership! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Sorry this one is a little blurry. The butterfly is emerging from the cocoon. Click Here to Join the IPS Today! Click Here to Renew Your IPS Membership! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 This one is laying eggs. Click Here to Join the IPS Today! Click Here to Renew Your IPS Membership! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 This picture doesn't do them justice, but these are leaf cutter ants marching across a palm frond over a ditch. These really stood out since the leaves were yellow. Click Here to Join the IPS Today! Click Here to Renew Your IPS Membership! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike4284m Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Some others from the last day at Pozo Azul. Green Basilisk! VERY cool. I can't believe all the things you guys saw! I was in CR a few years ago and did many of the same activities but didn't see half of the cool stuff you guys did. What a trip. South Florida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 This picture doesn't do them justice, but these are leaf cutter ants marching across a palm frond over a ditch. These really stood out since the leaves were yellow. Kate, did you ever look close at the leaves/flowers those leaf cutter ants were carrying? Our guide told us that the Leaf cutter ants live of of a certain fungus on the plant life they bring into their home. The wrong fungus can be very detrimental and so they have "small cleaner ants" that are riding along "cleaning" what ever is coming in, just to make sure. Sadly, these pics don't do them justice, but the red/brown colors on the yellow are one or two cleaners riding along! Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Some others from the last day at Pozo Azul. Green Basilisk! VERY cool. I can't believe all the things you guys saw! I was in CR a few years ago and did many of the same activities but didn't see half of the cool stuff you guys did. What a trip. Mike is this the same thing? he looked a little different. Both were within a few feet of each other while it was raining hard. Also, my last pic in Costa Rica... Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike4284m Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Some others from the last day at Pozo Azul. Green Basilisk! VERY cool. I can't believe all the things you guys saw! I was in CR a few years ago and did many of the same activities but didn't see half of the cool stuff you guys did. What a trip. Mike is this the same thing? he looked a little different. Both were within a few feet of each other while it was raining hard. Also, my last pic in Costa Rica... Top pic is a male (large crest) and this second one looks like it could be a lady friend. They also call them "Jesus Christ Lizards" because they can walk on water for short distances. We've got the less impressive brown basilisk (Basiliscus vittatus) all over the place here in SoFlo. Watch Em Run! South Florida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefty Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Leaf Cutter Ants These little critters were hard to photograph, but here are 2 shots. In the first shot, you can see the trail of leaf pieces marching right up the tree branch. The second shot is close enough that you can see the little guys carrying the leaf pieces. Larry Davis Time flies like an arrow, But fruit flies like a banana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgl Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Here's another Toucan shot at La Paz Waterfalls. It was tricky to get a good shot. A couple of times, with the delay in my little digital camera I would push the button, and then during the two seconds before the camera decided to take the photo the bird was on his way to some place else and I ended up with a non-Toucan photo! Second photo - another shot of the iguana. This was right after we had pulled out of the parking lot at Arenal hanging bridges and someone yelled for the bus driver to stop (which he did), and this little guy was just sitting there by the roadside, probably wondering what all the commotion was about! Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeK Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 "And here is de Viper dat I wuz de foist one to spot!" (I then let everyone else I saw know too after I snapped this pic), I only found it when we stopped ONEMORE time to discuss the difference between Iriartea and Socratea roots. You think its easy... wait till they are 40+ feet tall, the roots look similar on some.... Anyway, most of the group moved on and I was staring at all the roots and then I spotted a "slimy" root. Heres how I first saw it, I shouted snake as I took the picture. I should add the roots were about 1 1/2 - 2 inches in diameter. Great photo. It shows just how camouflaged the eyelash viper can be. Whenever you're in the forest, if you look close enough you can usually find them, they're not too uncommon. They are actually very small snakes so you really have to look for them. Did anyone get any photos of the bullet ants? Cincinnati, Ohio USA & Mindo, Ecuador Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 "And here is de Viper dat I wuz de foist one to spot!" (I then let everyone else I saw know too after I snapped this pic), I only found it when we stopped ONEMORE time to discuss the difference between Iriartea and Socratea roots. You think its easy... wait till they are 40+ feet tall, the roots look similar on some.... Anyway, most of the group moved on and I was staring at all the roots and then I spotted a "slimy" root. Heres how I first saw it, I shouted snake as I took the picture. I should add the roots were about 1 1/2 - 2 inches in diameter. Great photo. It shows just how camouflaged the eyelash viper can be. Whenever you're in the forest, if you look close enough you can usually find them, they're not too uncommon. They are actually very small snakes so you really have to look for them. Did anyone get any photos of the bullet ants? Which is that? The one in post #10 was taken by a guide with my camera (not used to it) anyway, that was a big mother, about 1 inch long. They didn't mind me holding the poisonous frog, but wanted to keep the ant away from me! Bill Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palmarum Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 JakeK Posted Yesterday, 10:48 PM ...Did anyone get any photos of the bullet ants? - Those of us on Bus #4 saw a group of Bullet Ants (Paraponera clavata) scrambling up and down a tree outside the gift shop at the Aerial Tram on Monday. They were on the move for sure. The guides could not tell us enough how bad the sting is from one of these. They are also called 24-Hour Ants, since the pain from one sting will last for a day. I tried to get volunteers to get stung but no one would do it. The ant is about an inch in length. - A female Golden Orb-Weaver Spider (Nephila maculata), with dinner. She was in one of the shadehouses at Marco Herrero's farm, that Group 2 explored on Sunday morning. Friendly and docile, she had no problem being surrounded by camera equipment. - Same spider with a pen for scale. Ryan 1 South Florida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Tampa Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 That little frog is Dendrobates pumilio, the blue jeans dart frog The green lizard is a green basilisk, the snake is an eyelash viper (come in many colors) and the little red headed gecko is a gecko whose name I cannot recall just now. I wouldn't rub my eyes or pick my nose after touching that dart frog, captive raised ones lack the punch that wild ones have, some kind of sequestering, or modification of toxins from some bug they eat (like an ant of some kind), but you could have had a rather unpleasant experience. Alan Wish I had been there. We get those spiders in the last pic here in Florida too. Tampa, Florida Zone - 10a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Not expecting it there, and looking at the big frog on the ground, I almost walkedface first into that weaver Ryan took a pic of! Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS Man about Palms Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 A little green guy spotted by Darold while he was pointing out some "fungus" to me. (I started taking pics of that, I'll probably start a thread for that at some point) Also, some cat with a lot of legs................ Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time. "The great workman of nature is time." "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Here's just a little bee on an inflorescence. Click Here to Join the IPS Today! Click Here to Renew Your IPS Membership! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putu enjula Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 A large lizard... they call it an iguana but it is not an iguana... go figure. ********Angela********** Check out Palmpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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putu enjula Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 backside ********Angela********** Check out Palmpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putu enjula Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 Aww what purdy eyes... ********Angela********** Check out Palmpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putu enjula Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 Of all the beautiful trees these birds could have built their nest... ********Angela********** Check out Palmpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putu enjula Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 They chose here... ********Angela********** Check out Palmpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putu enjula Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 We saw a lot of turkey buzzards ********Angela********** Check out Palmpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putu enjula Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 I had bad luck trying to get a shot of the monkeys... ********Angela********** Check out Palmpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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