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Fewer than birds which is expected at my best birding location, but of these 14, 3 are new to me! 🙂 Click the first page image below or go to this address: https://charliedoggett.smugmug.com/TRIPS/2024-July-4-9-Maquenque-Eco-Lodge/BUTTERFLIES
¡Pura Vida!
These 6 photos of 6 species were made on April 18 & 20, processed a week later and being ahead on my blog posts, they just now make it to you! 🙂 I was really photographing a lot during the weeks before my Arenal trip and now my photos and thus blog posts are sort of backed up. But I will catch up and maybe slow down a little or be more selective in which photos I share. Sorry, but I want to share all of them! 🙂 I will put these 6 butterflies in a little gallery below this one introductory shot.
and with 3 new moth species for me and at least one new butterfly species. First, to see them all in the sub-gallery of my developing trip gallery, go to Arenal ’24 Butterflies & Moths Gallery with 15 species . . .
Since I did a post on most of these from Arenal, I will let you look for the last minute photos in the gallery! 🙂 Though one is the featured image at top of post of a Hecale Longwing shot on my last morning there. And the birds gallery may take much longer with a lot more photos to sort through! And I think that I’m just getting slower at everything I do now. 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Saturday morning, both before and after breakfast, before leaving around noon, I got shots of the beautiful Hecale Longwing (Heliconius hecale) and a couple of moths with one quickly identified, using my Costa Rica Rainforest Moths book! 🙂 The other moth is unidentified, though I think he is in the Tiger Moth family. Here’s 2 shots of the Hecale and one of each moth . . .
I only photographed 12 butterflies here this year and the photos of 3 are too bad a quality to share, but I will share the other 9 which are all but one repeats of species I’ve seen before, unless that unidentified one becomes a new species. 🙂 I did not go to the Butterfly Conservatory this year in nearby El Castillo-Arenal, or I would have more species photographed. And by the way, I consider it the best butterfly garden of the many all over Costa Rica, in case you are ever nearby. Here’s one shot for the email announcement, followed by a gallery of the 9 species . . .
See my “Trip Gallery”:
2018 Tranquilo Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama
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| Unknown Moth Inside my house, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
See also my two “bugs” galleries:
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| Grasshopper (1 of 11,000+ species) Manzanillo, Costa Rica |
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| Golden Orb Spider Manzanillo, Costa Rica |
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| Whitened Bluewing Butterfly Restaurant Selva Tropical Butterfly Garden, Guapiles, Costa Rica On the highway to the Caribe |
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| Common Mytip Butterfly Manzanillo, Costa Rica |
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| Green Page Moth Manzanillo, Costa Rica |
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| Isabella’s Tiger Longwing or Heliconianf Butterfly Manzanillo, Costa Rica |
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| Sara Longwing Butterfly Restaurant Selva Tropical Butterfly Garden, Guapiles, Costa Rica On the highway to the Caribe |
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| Helcale Longwing or Heart-spotted Helconian Manzanillo, Costa Rica |
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| Giant Swallowtail Butterfly Restaurant Selva Tropical Garden, Guapiles, Costa Rica On the highway to the Caribe |
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| Almond Eyes Owl-butterfly Restaurant Selva Tropical Butterfly Garden, Guapiles, Costa Rica On the highway to the Caribe |
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| Emerald Patches Cattleheart Butterfly Manzanillo, Costa Rica |
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| Blue Morpho Butterfly Restaurant Selva Tropical Butterfly Garden, Guapiles, Costa Rica On the highway to the Caribe |
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| Giant Skipper Butterfly Restaurant Selva Tropical Butterfly Garden, Guapiles, Costa Rica On the highway to the Caribe |
See my BUTTERFLY PHOTO GALLERY
and/or
See my OTHER INSECTS PHOTO GALLERY
My collections are growing! The adventure never ends!
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| Bus window view of Chiquita Banana Plantation, Costa Rica |
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| Modern buses like this is how many tourists get around inside Costa Rica. |
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| All the dozen or so lodges have boats making the 1.5 hours trip into park. |
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| Our group on one of the Laguna Lodge boats enroute to lodge. |
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| Robert Umaña, our guide, listening for a bird or other animal. |
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| Robert using sand drawings to tell us about the life cycles of the green sea turtles that lay their eggs on this beach and each baby that makes it goes to ocean and returns years later to lay their own eggs. |
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| One of the many river channels and canals we traveled looking for wildlife. |
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| Another lodge’s guide pointing out a bird, monkey or other animal. |
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| Unidentified butterflies/moths in our Laguna Lodge garden. Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica |
