Costa Rica Wild & Fun

The Schlegel’s horned pit viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) is a species of venomous snake from Central and South America belonging to the pit viper subfamily. Small and arboreal, it is characterized by its wide range of color variations, as well as by a kind of “horn” located above its eyes. It is named after the German zoologist Hermann Schlegel. In Costa Rica, Bothriechis schlegelii is known as bocaracá, Vívora de pestañas or Oropel, in this case specifically due to its intense yellow color.

🚨 WHAT IF INSTEAD OF MISSING THEM OFF… WE’RE DISORIENTINGTHEM?

Every year we see fewer bees…
less buzzing in the flowers…
hives that don’t return whole… 💔🐝

And while we look for culprits in the weather or diseases,
there’s something almost no one wants to talk about:

📡 antennas
☠️ chemicals
🌆 pollution
🌫️ changes in the environment

We don’t see it…
but they do feel it.

Bees orient themselves like a natural GPS 🧭
using the sun, the Earth’s magnetic field, and their memory of the territory.

Now imagine this:

a world full of signals, noise, poisons, and places where there are no more flowers…

They arrive to forage…

and many never make it back home.

They don’t die in the hive.

They die silently… far away. 😔🐝

And the most heartbreaking thing of all is that:
it’s not malice…
it’s ignorance.

We continue to move forward as humanity 🚜📡
without asking ourselves how much that affects the beings that sustain our food 🌎.

Because this isn’t just a beekeeper’s problem…
it’s EVERYONE’S problem.

The day the bees disappear:

🍎 it won’t be an environmental issue

🌽 it will be a food issue.

🐝

The giant tarantula, Goliath tarantula, or bird-eating tarantula (Theraphosa blondi) is a species of mygalomorph spider from the theraphosidae family. It is considered the largest spider, reaching 28 to 30 cm between the tips of its extended legs and weighing more than 100 grams, with the maximum recorded weight being 155 grams for a captive female. Their bodies are covered in irritating hairs that act as a defense against predators. They are distributed throughout the equatorial forests of northern South America, found in Brazil, Guyana, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Females take about three years to mature and can live up to fourteen years. They are aggressive and emit a hissing noise (stridulation) when a potential enemy approaches.
They build burrows or reuse those abandoned by rodents. Their hunting territory is limited to a few meters around their burrow. Their diet consists primarily of invertebrates such as cockroaches, giant centipedes, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, and occasionally small rodents and lizards.
They are solitary and only interact during mating. These tarantulas lay about 50 eggs in a cocoon inside their burrow, which hatch after six weeks.
Their venom is far from fatal, as is popularly believed; their chelicerae produce a deep wound, and the pain can last up to 48 hours, along with nausea and sweating. Another form of defense is the emission of stinging (irritating) hairs on their abdomen, which do not cause major problems for humans except if they come into contact with the eyes or mouth. Some hunting indigenous tribes, such as the Yanomami, use them as food, as do other large mygalomorph spiders.