The Orange longhorn beetle is not officially called that; no popular name has been designated for these animals yet, but we do know that the scientific name is Oxymerus aculeatus, a species belonging to the family Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles).
Many of the local fruits that were once popular are now hardly known. An example of such a forgotten plant is the Dushi kabei also called Palu di mora or Palu dushi di kabei.
Various species of moray eels can be found in the waters of the ABC islands. Moray eels belong to the group of fish and not snakes, as many people think.
The popular and striking native local tree Guaiacum officinale has, in addition to its scientific name, several other names that vary from island to island and from location to location on the ABC-islands
When walking along the shores of our islands we you can sometime find delicate pink wing-shaped bivalve shelves of varying sizes that look and feel like they are made of the most fragile of materials.
This post is also available in: Dutch (below) The Buttonwood is a tree species that has become part of the landscaping in various neighbourhoods on all three islands of Aruba,…
If conditions are favourable in the months of June and July—meaning high temperatures accompanied by significant evaporation of surface water, and no rain showers—then you can observe the natural process of salt formation in the various historic salt pans that the island of Curaçao boasts.
In nature, various colour abnormalities can occur in animals, including birds. Albinism is one of them, but an even more common abnormality is so-called leucism; an abnormality in the pigment cells that leads to reduced pigmentation and can affect all types of pigments.