I’ve been back from Villa Caletas for a couple of days and my most obvious wildlife observation has been the butterflies, some repeats here from earlier posts but the Yellow-rimmed Skipper is a new one for my gallery and blog. There are soooo many different skippers! 🙂
Remember to CLICK an image to see it enlarged plus see the link to my butterfly gallery below the images.
4 Butterflies Today
See my growing Butterfly Gallery! Bueno! 🙂
For friends in Costa Rica, I have found that the best book for identifying butterflies (though still not 100%) is A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America by Jeffrey Glassberg. I’ve been using the first edition but just ordered the Second Edition which is improved and for those who prefer electronics, it is available in a Kindle Edition. I’m still a little partial to paper wildlife guides, though I do use Merlin on my phone for birds!
For just Costa Rica Butterflies there is a little less extensive book by Carrol Henderson titled Butterflies, Moths, and Other Invertebrates of Costa Rica which is also available in an electronic Kindle Edition. It is good for the most common butterflies & moths here and okay for maybe most people, but I like having many more butterflies to choose from in the Swift Guide, though I actually use both books. Because it is also more work digging through more choices! 🙂
See all my photos from this trip at 2019 Villa Caletas, Jaco Photo Gallery.
¡Pura Vida!
Thanks for the butterfly pic and there names
And here , tonight, in the USA we read about yet another mass shooting. Thankyou for the beauty of reading about your travels in C R. We count the days to our return.
Steve & Lucy,
Yes this is a good place to forget about the states and its constant violence and ugliness. ¡Pura Vida!
Michael,
I may like butterflies almost as much as birds! 🙂
My second year here I did a book on My First 50 Butterflies in Costa Rica which you can preview electronically for free at:
https://www.blurb.com/b/7328301-my-first-50-butterflies-in-costa-rica
Many better one since then so maybe a new butterfly book though they appear in all my travel books! 🙂 ¡Pura Vida!