Western Honey Bee
🔍 Western Honey Bee | Apis mellifera 🐝 📍 Heredia, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 A single foraging trip can take her to 50–100 flowers, and it’s that same nonstop hustle powering the tiny white blooms she’s working here.
Month: July 2026
Golden Silk Orb-weaver
🔍 Golden Silk Orb-weaver | Trichonephila clavipes 🕷️ 📍 Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 This spider spins silk with a natural golden sheen so strong that researchers have woven it into experimental textiles — and a single female can build a web over a meter…
King Swallowtail
🔍 King Swallowtail | Papilio thoas 🦋 📍 Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 This giant of a butterfly is nearly a twin of the Giant Swallowtail — the two species are so alike that even lepidopterists rely on wing-spot counts and genitalia to tell…
Mountain White
🔍 Mountain White | Leptophobia aripa 🦋 📍 Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 Despite the “mountain” name and a home range above 2,000m, this butterfly happily wanders into city gardens and vacant lots — its caterpillars have a particular fondness for backyard cabbage patches.
House Sparrow (Female)
🔍 House Sparrow (Female) | Passer domesticus 🐦 📍 Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 House Sparrows aren’t native to the Americas — they were introduced from Europe in the 1850s and have since become one of the most widespread birds on the planet.