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Mating grasshopper. The male is half the size of the female.
This grasshopper is in plain sight, and with no camouflage. 35 mm long.
Skipper butterfly. There were dozen of them on the flowering plants and there ...
I was lucky to get the ventral and dorsal view of this Elf butterfly. 3 cm ...
Silver-spotted Skipper butterfly. There were dozen of them all over the ...
Palestriped Flea Beetle. I found it under a palm leaf. Strips over strips. 1 cm ...
Scoliid Wasp. Long abdomen with black and yellow bands. 20 mm long.
Green Orb-weaver spider under a palm leaf. 15 mm long.
Orb-weaver spider wrapping a butterfly. 15mm long. I had never seen one with ...
Theona Checkerspot butterfly. Underside of hindwing has alternating bands of ...
Tropical Checkered-Skipper butterfly. I'm not really sure about the ID.
It was a long shot but I think it may be ID. Yellow/cream color with big black ...
I believe it is a Stink bug Nymph. 1 cm long. As I approached to take a photo ...
This is the biggest Hermit Crab I've ever seen, about half the size of my fist. ...
Great Southern White. White butterfly with brown lines. There were many of them ...
Leaf-footed bug. It was under a palm leaf above my head I couldn't get another ...
Robber fly feeding on a bee. I was amazed to see it hanging from just one leg ...
The fiirst time I ever see this Least Tern. There were only a couple on the ...
Mexican Silverspot butterfly. Upperside orange with brown at the wing bases; ...
Orb-weaver spider. There were several of them in the plants leading to the ...
Mexican Fritillary butterfly. The upper side of the wings is bright orange with ...
White-striped Longtail butterfly. In my trip to the beach I saw hundreds of ...