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Resident of the kapok tree (Ceiba ...
Assassin bug 23 mm
Mixed deciduous forest, nearby elephant grass, rice fields.
Usually these little beetles go round in pairs, but this time they were all ...
Approx 3cm. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lennyworthington/6179860621/
Just coming into season in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Photo at Chiang Mai ...
A bird with extensive white wing patches.
This is a tree that I planted two years ago. It was one meter tall. It has ...
Yellow flowers and pods on tree. Native to WA. Deciduous shrub or tree. 1-6 ...
Kapok tree which showed the tree's many ...
Fluffy white ball buds. Looks like cotton. It has large spikes all up its ...
The silk cotton from these trees is used to stuff pillows and cushions. It is ...
The photograph of white cotton with the black seed is from Arippa forest near ...
Native to Northern Australia this plant is commonly referred to as
Yellow crab spider. Yellow abdomen 5mm in size, body 8mm. Also known as Flower ...
. Belongs to the same family as the baobab and
The tree grows to 60-70 m (200-230 ft) tall and has a very substantial trunk up ...
Tall thin tree with beautiful red flowers in February/March. Seed pods are ...
Adults are all black glossed with green while immatures have white underparts ...
The female is more pink brown over all. Both has a black ring round the neck. ...
It is endemic to the Philippines. A small bird with black upperparts and white ...
Tree to 150 ft. or more. The trunk flares into several usually narrow ...
once shed by the tree small animals eat the blossoms. Seed pods yield silky ...
,000 t (5,500 short tons) of milkweed floss was collected in the United States ...