Pizza Box Darkling Beetle - 5mm

Platydema sp (Tenebrionidae) - Mariposario Montezuma, Costa Rica

Anisocelis bug nymph of Costa Rica

Mariposario Montezuma Gardens, Costa Rica

Mariposario Tuftmoth - 10mm

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

Costa Rica Lynx Spider

Mariposario Montezuma Lynx Spider - Oxyopidae - Peucetia?

Eriophora edax, Araneae, Montezuma, Costa Rica

The murderer, in flagrante delicto.

Yes, those are blue morpho scales on the scape!

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

Non-Euclidean Moth: Apatelodes sp.

Mariposario Montezuma, Costa Rica - Apatelodes sp, Bombycidae

Colorado Pine Needle Weevil

Pachyrhinus elegans

Locale: Long Scraggy Massif

Colorado Tiger Moth: Leptarctia californiae

Found in Buffalo Creek, Colorado, in the river valley pictured.

Colorado Wolf Spiders

W. Platte River, Cheesman Lake Trail, Jefferson County, CO

Pardosa I think.