I was cleaning photo files this week and ran across pictures I took last year of a friend’s Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis. The first time I ever saw one was 15 years ago in the botanical garden on the island of St Vincent. I barely remember the garden, the oldest in the western hemisphere, but…
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Mating Spiders!
More excitement this summer – mating spiders! I recently posted about some of our summer spider finds in the park. The Golden-silk Orbweaver, Nephila clavipes, at over two inches, was one of the largest we’d ever seen of this species. She was surrounded by smaller males and seemed to be attracting more by the day….
Roatan Agouti
June 2015 – Roatan, Honduras – We just returned from Roatan, one of the Bay Islands of Honduras, where I fell in love with these little agouti, which I believe are the endemic Roatán Island agouti, Dasyprocta ruatanica. They were about ten to twelve inches long. The folks at the resort called them rabbits and…
Burrowing Owls!
March, 2015 ~ No, these little burrowing owls aren’t from Jacksonville, but it should be obvious from the grass, that I’m not not out in the wilds, stalking elusive beasties. These were in a park – a very suburban, landfill-turned-city-park – in South Florida. A couple of weeks ago, when our friends Ken and Tammy…