Sunday, April 29, 2012

Mariposario Tuftmoth - 10mm

Montezuma, Costa Rica - probably a tubeworm moth Acrolophus (Acrolophidae)


Costa Rica Lynx Spider


Mariposario Montezuma Lynx Spider - Oxyopidae - Peucetia?



Saturday, April 28, 2012

Eriophora edax, Araneae, Montezuma, Costa Rica

The murderer, in flagrante delicto.





Yes, those are blue morpho scales on the scape!

Friday, April 27, 2012

Pupas of Costa Rica



Cissus vine - species help?

Cissus - Vitaceae - Mariposario Montezuma, Costa Rica




The Roots

Galls on Monkeycomb Vine

Galls on Pithecoctenus sp, Montezuma, Costa Rica






This is the gall, opened. It was empty.


On Pithecoctenium sp. (Bignoniaceae.) Suspect Cecidomyiidae.  Discs are 3-4mm in diameter, on underside of 3 leaves.



Underside of one, prised off the leaf surface

One of the infected leaves

Lateral view of shrivelled one


Leaf of the vine

Tendrils of the vine


Fresh growth point of the vine


 Underside of vine leaf


Mariposario Spider

New spider in the butterfly garden! 11mm. Mariposario Montezuma, Costa Rica




Mushroom of Costa Rica: Polyporus alveolaris

Mariposario Montezuma - Polyporaceae



Costa Rica Fence Lizard

Sceloporus variabilis


Costa Rica Bark-gnawing Beetle - Temnoscheila

Trogossitidae

Mariposario Montezuma Nature Reserve - 7mm


Thursday, April 26, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Colorado Wolf Spiders

W. Platte River, Cheesman Lake Trail, Jefferson County, CO
Pardosa I think.