🔍 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) | 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.
🔍 Rubyspot Damselfly | Hetaerina sp. 🌿 📍 Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 Damselflies rest with their wings folded together above the body — the easiest way to tell them apart from their dragonfly cousins, which hold wings flat out to the sides.
🔍 Domestic Chicken (Chick) | Gallus gallus domesticus 🐣 📍 Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 💬 A chick’s fluffy down isn’t just for cuteness — it’s a poor insulator on its own, which is why chicks huddle together and rely on external heat sources until…
