Plants > Flowering Plants
The Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum wallisii), scientifically classified within the arum family (Araceae), is a graceful, beloved tropical evergreen perennial native to the damp, shaded rainforest floors of Colombia and Venezuela. Renowned for its lush, arching dark-emerald...
Invertebrates > Hesperiids & Lepidoptera
The Glasswing Butterfly (Greta oto), known throughout its native Latin America as the espejitos (‘little mirrors’) and celebrated worldwide as an emblem of delicate natural grace, is an extraordinary, transparent-winged nymphalid butterfly belonging to the...
Invertebrates > Nymphalids & Lepidopterans
The Blue Morpho Butterfly (Morpho peleides, often treated as a subspecies of Morpho helenor), celebrated across entomology and nature lovers as the crowning jewel of the Neotropical rainforest, is a colossal, brilliantly iridescent brush-footed butterfly belonging to...
