More Updates & Critters

Please note that pictures have been added to the vacation blog, and here are some amazing pics of animals that TJ took. He clearly took more time on this than I usually take, but the pictures are beautiful, so it's cool.

A fish from Laguna de Apoyo that Trevor didn't identify for me.

A truly amazing grasshopper pic.

A lizard (id anyone?)

***Lauren has corrected us, this is a damselfly. You can tell because when perched, it's wings are together. Good job, non-biologist. Shame, shame, biologists.

Millipede (2 sets of legs per segment)

Enormous toad with a tick on his head.

Comments

Anonymous said…

For the record, the dragonfly was like five inches long, the biggest one I've ever seen. Mother nature is a maad scientist.

T

March 4, 2008 at 10:47 PM

Unknown said…

I have no idea what kind of lizard you've got there, but your dragonfly is a damselfly.

March 5, 2008 at 1:14 AM

Anonymous said…

Oh, good point iwasteela. I meant to say Zygoptera. They aren't fish, afterall.

Ugh.

March 7, 2008 at 7:41 PM

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