Some days we're GLAD we have a LandRover!

Pita meets a Rhinoceros Beetle.

This caterpillar is cute enough to pet, but the painfully stinging hairs guarantee you only do it once!

         This stinkhorn makes its appearance after a night of rain...and smells like something died!

Helmeted Basilisk hatching from egg.

Always colorful during the mating season, male iguanas are easy to spot sunning along the riverbank.

Peanut Head Bugs have perfect camouflage and are hard to spot....... unless you get a profile view

This colorful Morelet's Leaf Frog can also change colors to blend more with it's surroundings

Caught in the act...this tayra (bush dog) is robbing the nest of a Ferruginous Pygmy Owl.

A tiny banded gecko... one of the most colorful and easy to see

Thousands of iridescent blue beetles cover the Mexican Heather.... one of the most beautiful "plagues" imaginable

This hungry Boa Constrictor is devouring an agouti for breakfast.

Vampires attack our horses from time to time. When it gets to be too frequent, we call the "Bat Busters," who come out and capture the bats by setting up large nets around the horses at dusk.    They identify all bats caught, to make sure they are Vampires....

This is the only way to control them at this time.

...then they smear a poison paste on the bats, and release them.  When the bat returns to the roost and is groomed by the others, the poison can be effective on up to a dozen more bats.