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Photos of las cruces biological station in Costa Rica (Central America) [updated 2009-03-26]


Below you will find a collection of photos from Costa Rica. Pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 2008. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.









Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza, being assessed by researchers



Strangler fig



Pasture, regenerating forest, and forest in Las Cruces



Bee approaching a bird-of-paradise flower



Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen



Yellow heliconia



Green insect with polka dots



Bromeliad



Costa Rican rainforest in the late afternoon



Banana flowers and red banana fruit



Transparent moth



Lizard seen from the underside of a leaf



Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)



Flowering bromeliad



Black honeybee



Black butterfly with a white fringe, an orange patch, and turquoise spots



Red frog



Little Hermit (Phaethornis longuemareus)



Leaf in the rainforest of Costa Rica



Red ginger



Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)



Lily



Green insect with polka dots



Anole on a red plant stem



Red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis) feeding on a flower in Costa Rica



Red orange flowers



Mottled forest frog



Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, Mionectes oleagineus



Long-nosed black Weevil (family Curculionidae) with orange markings on its back



Transparent moth




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