Yucatan Living
Expatriates living, working & playing in Merida and the Yucatan
Natural World
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Chaya
There's a local bush or small tree here, however, producing six-inch-wide, maple-like leaves that can be cooked like collard greens.
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Caribbean Agave Flowering
Here in the scrub vegetation on dunes along the coast and in thin soil atop limestone the agaves are abundant.
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Violet-Flowered Four-O'Clocks
With the rainy season, the forest once again has grown dark with shadows. Fewer forest plants are flowering now, probably because in the ...
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4 Traditional Crops - Camote, Jicama, Chayote & Ñame
Friday I found Luis busy working in the traditional Maya milpa, or cornfield, planting "camotes" (ka-MOH- tehs), or sweet potatoes. Maya ...
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Milkweed Fugues
At first glance, every blossom looked just like the one before it...
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Snakes of the Yucatan
There are venomous snakes in the Yucatan, and even a few very poisonous ones. And there are a lot of snakes that are harmless and help keep down the rodent population... shouldn't you know the difference?
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Insects of the Yucatan
Yucatan has some of the world's most beautiful bugs! Here is our list of the top ten insects to be aware of in Yucatan...
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The Yucatan's Ocellated Turkey
An important traditional food source with beautiful plumage.
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Save the Melipona bee!
Melipona honey is unique for its flavor, medicinal value, antibiotic properties, nutritional value and cultural significance because of its sacred use in Mayan ceremonies and rituals.
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Iguanas of Yucatan, Part III
In this third part of a 3-part series, guest author Byron Augustin completes our very thorough education about iguanas with even more on their very interesting lives...
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Trees of the Yucatan: Mimosa
The scrub surrounding Sabacché, is dominated by woody, frilly-leafed, often spiny members of the Bean Family. By "frilly-leafed I mean t...
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Limestone is AMAZING!
This week we are interested in the Yucatan’s most defining geographic element, the humble limestone.
“Limestone is a sediment...
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Iguanas of Yucatan, Part II
In the second part of a three-part series, learn little known facts about iguanas...
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Iguanas, Part I
Iguanas are a new animal for many of us who move to Yucatan. But they are everywhere, and a part of the history of the region. Here is Part One in a three part series about this mysterious animal...
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North American Bumble Bee Officially Added to Endangered Species List
Learn about Mayan beekeeping and the fight to save the species.
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Top Ten Trees of Yucatan
When you live here, you cannot help but notice how many beautiful flowering trees there are... one or two for every season, at least! Jim Conrad, a naturalist who is currently spending time near Chichen Itza, gives us a rundown on the most common trees you see...
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A Place for Spider Monkeys
A friend and fellow writer from Playa del Carmen recently visited the Jungle Place, a place where fellow extranjeros provide shelter and a new home for abused and neglected spider monkeys...
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The Maya Riviera Recovers from Wilma
Hurricane Wilma struck the Maya Riviera coast of Mexico on October 21 and 22 of this year. Seven weeks later, the damage is still visible in many places, but the recovery is remarkable...
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Wilma Aftermath
This morning's Diario de Yucatan shows a big photo of tourists enjoying themselves on a beach called Playa Delfines, which is the public beach on the Hotel Zone in Cancun...
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Hurricane Wilma Morning
The Diario de Yucatan says that as the hurricane is leaving, thousands of residents are coming out of their shelters to survey the damage...
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Suddenly Its All About Wilma
We're not too worried about the hurricane. If we were living in Cancun or Tulum, we'd be boarding up doors and windows, but here in Merida we'll probably only get bad weather...
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Pondering Hurricanes
Hurricane Wilma is headed for the Yucatan. Not that we're worried or anything. Merida is probably the safest large city in a hurricane zone that we can think of, now that we think of it...
