Monthly Archives: April 2009
Official Blog Break
It’s been a while since my last post. That’s the unofficial blog break. It will be another couple of months until my next one. That’s the official blog break.
Thorn Treehopper
This morning as I was checking to see whether the sandpaper plant fruit had ripened, I turned around and met, to my astonishment, this sight: I thought at first the small tree (in the Fabaceae family, Mimosa subfamily, but not … Continue reading
Introducing The Panama Naturalist
In July 2008 John Bennett sent a message to A Neotropical Savanna asking for help in identifying a liana that was in bloom at the time. There ensued a correspondence that made it clear John had some pretty astute observations … Continue reading
A Plague of Beetles
This morning our worker called us out to see what he called la plaga – a plague of beetles. It was early morning, the beetles were on the back side of the leaf, so I was shooting in the sun, hence the poor quality of this and the next image. 
Here’s the culprit. 
Ted McCrae of Beetles in the Bush says that it is a scarab family of the chafer group (subfamily Melolonthinae) but did not have a species name for it.
