Costa Rica photos: hacienda baru

[last updated 27-Nov-2015] Below is a collection of photos taken in Costa Rica. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler

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Common chunk headed snake - Imantodes cenchoa

Green-and-black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) [Caribbean variant]

Isabella's Tiger (Eueides isabella) in the Costa Rican forest

Giant brown Long-horned Beetle (Callipogon lemoinei) (female)

Red orb spider feeding

Brown leaf litter snake

Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus)

Orange and yellow heliconia

Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly with its wings closed

Isabella's Heliconian (Eueides isabella)

Thoas Swallowtail (Papilio thoas) -Yellow and black swallowtail butterfly

Tiger Longwing (Heliconius hecale) [Orange, yellow, and black butterfly]

Frog [costa_rica_5503]

Baby sea turtle on a Costa Rican beach

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4236]

Black Iguana (Ctenosaura similis) in a tree

Isabella's Tiger butterfly

Sleeping Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly

Spiny caterpillar

Baby sea turtles headed toward the sea

Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)

Brownish-red Long-horned Beetle (family Cerambycidae, subfamily Prioninae)

White-faced Capuchin baring its fangs

Looking up the trunk of a giant Ceiba tree

Black wasp-like insect with indigo blue eyes, orange wings, and orange antenna. This robber fly or mydas fly, (Asilidae or Mydidae family) is a mimic of the Tarantula Hawk Wasp (Pepsis formosa)

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea [costa_rica_5703]

Orange, yellow, and white flower

White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus)

Hatchling sea turtle

Red and green arrow poison frog (Dendrobates granuliferus)

Red and yellow heliconia

Green-and-black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) [Caribbean variant] [costa_rica_5389]

Nephila orb spider

Praying mantis [cr_4008]

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea [costa_rica_5700]

Thorns on a rainforest tree trunk

Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) [formerly tagged Short-tailed Nighthawk (Lurocalis semitorquatus)]

Black wing-tipped dragonfly

Red-and-green poison arrow frog (Dendrobates granuliferus)

Ants feeding on a fallen cicada

Fred fruit and yellow flowers

Rainforest canopy crab

White-faced Capuchin baring its fangs [costa_rica_5142]

Sea turtle hatchlings

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4195]

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4220]

Translucent green katydid

Orange and black weevil

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea [costa_rica_5710]

Rainforest canopy crab [costa_rica_5530]

Small Postman Butterfly, Heliconius erato (Black, red, and yellow butterfly)

White-faced Capuchin [costa_rica_5171]

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4217]

Walking stick insect

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4260a]

Blue morpho with its wings closed

White-faced Capuchin baring its teeth

Common chunk headed snake - Imantodes cenchoa [costa_rica_5513]

Cicada [costa_rica_5666]

Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly with its wings closed [cr_4128]

Nephila orb spider [costa_rica_5001]

Common chunk headed snake - Imantodes cenchoa [costa_rica_5508]

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle [costa_rica_5689]

Green-backed heron (Butorides striatus)

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea [costa_rica_5708]

Baby White-faced Capuchin monkey

Chunk-headed Snakes (Imantodes cenchoa)

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4266]

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea [costa_rica_5698]

Small cicada-like insect from the Fulgoridae family

Nephila orb spider [costa_rica_5200]

Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly with its wings closed [cr_4127]

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4255a]

Mass of caterpillars [cr_3997]

Blue morpho with its wings closed [costa_rica_4984]

Atta leaf-cutter ants

Thoas Swallowtail (Papilio thoas)

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle

Siproeta stelenes (Malachite, Pearly Malachite) Yellow, black, and white butterfly

White-faced Capuchin [costa_rica_5192]

Granular poison dart frog (Dendrobates granuliferus)

Brownish-red Long-horned Beetle (family Cerambycidae, subfamily Prioninae) [costa_rica_5651]

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4192]

Brownish-red Long-horned Beetle (family Cerambycidae, subfamily Prioninae) [costa_rica_5654]

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea [costa_rica_5714]

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea [costa_rica_5709]

Young cacao fruit

Sea turtle hatchlings [cr_4258a]

Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle [costa_rica_5690]

Red orb spider feeding [costa_rica_5583]

Swarm of caterpillars

Sleeping Caligo sp or Owl Butterfly [costa_rica_5601]

Pacific coast rainforest of Costa Rica [costa_rica_5431]

Red and yellow heliconia [costa_rica_4986]

Purple flower of a water plant

Mother White-faced Capuchin with a baby on its back [costa_rica_5164]

Orb spider eating a grasshopper

Sleeping dragonfly

Spider on the underside of a banana leaf

Leaf-footed Bugs (family Coreidae)

White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) [costa_rica_5109]

White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) [costa_rica_5051]

Group of caterpillars

White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) [costa_rica_5101]

Black wasp-like insect with indigo blue eyes, orange wings, and orange antenna. This robber fly or mydas fly, (Asilidae or Mydidae family) is a mimic of the Tarantula Hawk Wasp (Pepsis formosa) [costa_rica_5272]

White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) [costa_rica_5076]

Giant daddy longlegs

Assassin Bug, family Reduviidae

White-faced Capuchin baring its fangs [costa_rica_5140a]

Beige katydid feeding [costa_rica_5532]

Looking down a beach towards Playa Dominical

Dung Beetle, family Scarabaeidae [costa_rica_5624]

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