Los Charcos de Osa

Thanks goes to our great friend and national Lepidoptera expert, Isidro Chacon, for helping me to identify this butterfly, photographed feed...

Having said that we known nothing about the taxonomy of Arachnids, we know enough to be able to identify this beastie - that I very nearly p...

We know nothing about the taxonomy of Arachnids, but here's an image of a beautiful silver metallic-backed spider. This species is commo...

This image shows the female of Hamadryas laodamia saurites . It can be easily distinguished from the male of this species by the broad white...

One of my favorite butterflies visiting Los Charcos, Hamadryas laodamia saurites . Reminiscent of Van Gogh's starry nights. This is the ...

Here's what I think (?) is a cute little Smilisca sordida (Hylidae), commonly known as "rana de río".

Here's a gorgeous frog, the Masked tree frog, Smilisca phaeota (Hylidae). We found this beauty sharing a Heliconia leaf near the house ...