Wild flowers- Mexican poppy

A wild plant you can mainly find on places where the original vegetation is heavily disturbed is the so called Mexican poppy or Flowering thistle.

Wild flowers – Cawara / Karawara (di mondi) (Cordia dentata)

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.

Shells: Common purple snail

In 1758 Linnaeus gave the scientific name Janthina janthina to a tiny and very delicate purple / blue snail shell and its snail inhabitant.

Birds ID: Black-faced grassquit

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)

Shells – The Bleeding Tooth Nerite

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.

The Flower pot parasol

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…

Butterfly species: Cracker

This post is also available in: Dutch (below) Butterflies are very good indicators of the health of ecosystems. In recent years, the number of butterflies and the diversity of butterfly…

A bid for her favors

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’.

The Infrou

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…

The ‘Atlantic Ghost Crab’

As soon as the last human feet leave the beach and the sun sends its last rays onto the land, a completely different world wakes up and starts living its…

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