When it rains the mondi is full with these cream coloured flowers, growing in dense clusters on shrubs or small trees that have dark green leaves that feel rough to the touch.
The Varronia curassavica is called Basora preto on Aruba, Karishuri on Bonaire and Basora pretu on Curaçao. It is a plant that can easily be overlooked and often considered to be a weed…
The avifauna of the Leeward islands, the diversity of bird species on the islands, consists of several seed eaters, and the most inconspicuous and often overlooked species is the Black Faced grassquit or Mòfi (Tiaris bicolor)
This snail and shell species has quite a name in English: the Bleeding Tooth Nerite. It is kind of logical though if you take a good look at the shell this snail species builds for itself.
Mushrooms, the reproductive organs of fungi, are everywhere during the rainy season of the islands and in different colors and sizes. Some appear in plant pots and disappear as quickly…
Aruba and Curaçao do not have large hairy spiders like the feared Tarantulas in South America, but they do have a large number of other species, most of which are…
At Christmas the inner rosette of one of the Teku di mondi plants (Bromelia humilis) was bright red with a characteristic white cotton-like ball in the middle. Our teku would…
Impress, dance, the most beautiful colors and feathers. It takes quite a bit of work for a male bird to seduce a female. With one species it is even more complicated than the other, as evidenced by the latest documentary on Netflix called ‘Dancing with the Birds’.
A little attention for one of the most hated prickly plants of our island, the Infrou or Opuntia caracassana, a plant that can be used perfectly to keep annoying fellow…