Hiking Curaçao - Flora and Fauna: green

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Lady beetle Cycloneda devestita. June 3, 2017. Janwe / Korporaal. 11.00am.

This a picture of the first one I saw in Curaçao. San Sebastian. Size: about 1cm.

Today, we saw a smaller one, 3mm, on the coffee table outside. We put it on a kitchentowel and it stayed there for 15 minutes before it flew off.

Smart phone pictures. Not many pixels.

Green, green Curaçao!

The rain kept coming, the island became green.

This is not the way many will picture this Caribbean island.

But after months of rainfall, the green is overwhelming.

Around the new rain ponds

Not many birds yet. But lots of green and flowers!

Green Heron, Butorides virescens

Suddenly a green heron landed in the tree.

Green Fly - Blue Fly - Blauwgroene Bromvlieg

Family: calliphoridae. Common names: blow flies, blue-bottle flies, blue bottle flies hosts: notes: Small to large robust flies, generally with a metallic blue or green abdomen and aristae of antennae plumose at tip. Larvae (maggots) breed in decaying flesh and manure. Screw-wormlarvae may infest living tissue (myiasis)
See here: Bow Fly, Green Fly, Blue Fly

Myiasis wordt veroorzaakt door de maden van de vlieg Lucilia sericata, beter bekend als de blauwgroene bromvlieg, groene vleesvlieg of schapengoudvlieg genoemd. Deze vlieg zet haar eieren af in een wonde of de bevuilde vacht. De eitjes ontwikkelen zich binnen enkele uren of dagen tot maden. De maden vervellen een aantal keren en krijgen mondhaken, waarmee ze zich vasthaken in de huid. Ze voeden zich daar met weefselvocht en weefsel. Ze ondermijnen de huid waardoor grote stinkende wonden ontstaan met vaak sterfte van het schaap (0f mens - FC) tot gevolg. BRON

Green Heron - Butorides virescens

Green Heron at Jan Thiel Bay

photos: Femia Cools

Green Heron

(met dank aan J.Zwaaneveld)

lady beetle Cycloneda devestita

Green bug. Very similar to the Lady Bug. Not very known. There hasn't yet been a serious study of the insect world of Curaçao. Then green bug acts like the Lady bug and is a useful predator in the fight against pests.