Although I am waiting til next week to post my next blog about Costa Rica's Independence Day, I took a walk in the backyard today and had to give you a taste of our "Biological Preserve." For you bug lovers, we offer a wide variety of insects, spiders and other creepy crawlies (see last year's blog on our tarantula infestation!). Perhaps one of our readers will write me a comment to tell me what kind of spider this is - I have two in our yard right now and have never seen anything quite like them!
In addition to the bugs, we have several types of beautiful tropical flowers and some fruit trees, including lemon (seen above), cas, and banana. Our lemon tree is small (only produced 5 so far) but the lemons, although green like a lime, are sweet rather than sour. Cas are small green citrus fruit that the Costa Ricans blend with water to make a sour juice similar to lemonade. Our banana tree produced a small bunch last year, quickly devoured by a grey squirrel that walked the tight rope, or should I say the clothes line, to reach them. The bananas are harder, smaller, and not as sweet as those grown on the plantations.
We have several butterflies and Colibri (humming birds) that visit our flowers as well. While I was out I managed to catch a photo of these two, while two other colorful varieties escaped my lens. Now I know you are all thinking about how wonderful life must be like to live near the rain forest and have such a variety of insects and plant life to keep you busy, but it is easy to forget that wildlife doesn't always remain out in the wild! Two weeks ago we found a crab in our office and our empleada, Marta, found a black scorpion in the utility room! Just a few more critters to add to the roaches, snake, tarantulas, millipedes, moths, beetles, and other creatures that have made our house their home too!
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