Wildlife

Where are My Hummingbirds?                     The hummingbird can easily be spotted in the most of our local reserves or in some of the clearings in the […]

Out Our Backdoor   and a Recipe for Adventuresome Souls                                                   […]

7       What’s that really loud, horrible, awful honking noise you sometimes hear from the jungle so early in the morning? It’s the call of a very unassuming (but noisy) bird, the plain […]

  LOCUSTS Ahead, Duck and Run For Cover October 2016     Perhaps you noticed, a few weeks ago, a sudden influx into our area of very large grasshoppers, flying through the air, chomping on […]

Out our backdoor —— is a gray fox! The fully grown gray fox has a mix of white, red black and grey fur, while the new born pups are brownish-black. The reddish-brown markings on its […]

Tarantula, Giant Spider Terror or Sweet Fuzzy Friend? It’s large…it’s furry…it has eight legs…and it’s coming…to eat your insects!! *screams* Yes, it’s a tarantula, one of our area’s most feared creatures. But they only look […]

Spider Monkeys live in the tropical forests of Central and South America from southern Mexico to Brazil.  They are critically endangered and at extremely high risk of extinction due in part to logging and deforestation […]

Blue Morpho Butterfly, Beautiful Native Butterfly One of the most gorgeous inhabitants of Quintana Roo is the blue morpho butterfly. As large as many birds, you will see it as it flutters by, flashing its […]

Scorpion (Alacrán) – Look Out Below So what has armor, pinchers, AND a painful, venomous stinger; glows neon blue under UV light; and hasn’t changed much in 430 million years? That’s right, the dreaded scorpion. […]