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Pictures from our trip to Costa Rica: Dec 27, 2010 - Jan 7, 2011
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4a Traveling to Monteverde we saw coatimundis on the side of the road
4b. And a howler monkey in a tree
4c. We traveled around 'Laguna de Arenal' to get from Arenal to Monteverde
4d. We saw a meadowlark
4e. And a blue-crowned motmot - a gorgeous bird
4f. We made the guide stop the van for this iguana - if we had only known how many we were going to see we wouldn't have bothered
4g. Our visit to the butterfly garden started with bugs other than butterflies
4h. Like tarantulas
4i. And scorpions (this one is a tailless scorpion)
4j. That's me holding the millipede
4k. And don't forget the legendary machaca - there's only one cure for a machaca bite!
4l. Our docent held these beetles near each other and you could hear them talking to each other
4m. A hercules beetle
4n. Butterfly pupae waiting to hatch
4o. Butterflies are way easier to photograph when they are pupae! This is a blue morpho
4p. A blue morpho with wings folded
4q. A glasswing butterfly
4r. Small postman butterfly
4s. Don't remember the name of this one
4t Don't remember the name of this guy either
4u. Bizarre plant
4v. The trip to the garden ended with a visit to a leafcutter ant nest
4w. The leafcutter ants used this branch to get from their nestbox to the forest without being stepped on
4x. There were lots of kiskadees at our hotel
4y. The day ended with a gorgeous sunset
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