Photograph is looking upstream in a small river that is full of water and white water. There has been lots of rain recently.

Silvertone effect on a photograph of a exposed tree standing above a remainder of the forest. This is as far as you can drive up Cacao.

Photograph of a forest at 1200 m on Cacao. The light is breaking through the trees in the canopy, and in the foreground there is a malaise trap and a rain gauge.

Can you imagine how happy I am to be spending part of the week heading up and down #VolcanCacao in #ACG #CostaRica downloading the 12th year of temperature data from here? ….. VERY!

a scanning electron microscope dorsal image of the head, thorax and elytra of the Palaminus rove beetle from dry forest in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste

A gigapan panoramic image of the forest where the beetle was collected at 600 m on the slopes of Volcan Cacao in ACG Costa Rica http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/197992

a light microscope frontal image of the head, thorax and elytra of the Palaminus rove beetle from dry forest in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste

It's been snowing in #Guelph; so here's a look at a beautiful #staphylinid from #ACG in #CostaRica. Palaminus is found in dry forest to rain forest transitions like this #GigaPan from #VolcanCacao

explore the forest: www.gigapan.com/gigapans/197...
explore the beetles: doi.org/10.5883/BOLD...