At The sunflower

Bumble bee covered in polen at a sunflower

Painted Lady 1

Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui,

Painted Lady

Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui,

Resting

Monarchs (Danaus plexippus) not just simply beautiful but truly amazing covering thousands of miles, with a corresponding multi-generational migration patters. That’s what I call family values

On its way

Monarchs (Danaus plexippus) not just simply beautiful but truly amazing covering thousands of miles, with a corresponding multi-generational migration patters. That’s what I call family values

My sunflower and me

The giant swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes), the largest butterfly in North America, resting on a sunflower.

Yummy!!

Butterflies are always so pretty and what I like about this photo is the different angle, the leading lines and the tilt. This swallowtail butterfly photo does not display the wings as the center of attention but the eyes and proboscis. Swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio) are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. Swallowtails have a number of distinctive features such as the forked appearance of the swallowtails' hindwings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread and that gave rise to the common name swallowtail.

Perro zompopo

We found this beautiful helmeted iguana (Corytophanes cristatus) or as perro zompopo as it is known locally near Arenal in Costa Rica. I don't know why it would be called perro "dog" but in any case, it is a species of lizard endemic to the New World. It is found from southern Mexico to South America in rainforests. With long limbs, it climbs well, and feeds on insects, spiders, worms, and other lizards. It can change colors too from dark to light or vice versa. Cool, isn't it?

Can Bite!

Oxybelis aeneus, commonly known as the Mexican vine snake or brown vine snake, is a species of colubrid snake, which is endemic to the Americas. In Arizona it is also called "pike-headed tree snake". Even if is a mildly venomous rear-fanged snake and not dangerous to us, it still does look impressive with its mouth opened!

Green, Green, My Iguana Is Green

The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as common iguana or American iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana native to Central, South America, and the Caribbean. An herbivore, it has adapted significantly with regard to locomotion and osmoregulation as a result of its diet. It grows to 1.5 meters (4.9 ft) in length from head to tail

Yellow and Blue

Pomacanthus xanthometopon is a ray-finned fish in the family Pomacanthidae found in shallow parts of the Indo-Pacific. It is commonly known as the blueface angelfish or the yellowface angelfish because of its striking facial colors. It is found on coral reefs in the eastern part of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Its range includes the Maldive Islands, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, northern Australia and Micronesia.