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Bull shark. Sharks were responsible for a large number of attacks and deaths in the region, Brazil has the highest number, about 107, and 30 deaths, followed by Mexico with 62 attacks and 35 fatalities, Cuba with 28 attacks and 16 deaths, Panama registers 27 attacks and 17 deaths, Venezuela has 11 cases and 5 deaths, Costa rica has 6 fatalities of 10 attacks, Colombia with 1 fatality of 8 ...
Oncopeltus fasciatus, known as the large milkweed bug, is a medium-sized hemipteran (true bug) of the family Lygaeidae. [2] It is distributed throughout North America, from Central America through Mexico and the Caribbean to southern areas in Canada. [2] Costa Rica represents this insect's southern limit. [3]
Leptoglossus phyllopus or eastern leaf-footed bug is a species of leaf-footed bugs in the same genus as the western conifer seed bug (L. occidentalis.The Eastern leaf-footed bug is found throughout the southern United States, from Florida to California, through Mexico, and as far south as Costa Rica.
The wildlife of Costa Rica comprises all naturally occurring animals, fungi and plants that reside in this Central American country. Costa Rica supports an enormous variety of wildlife, due in large part to its geographic position between North and South America, its neotropical climate, and its wide variety of habitats.
The name 'kissing bug' doesn't quite communicate the danger of the infection that insects with that moniker can spread. A dangerous parasitic illness spread by bugs that bite people's faces at ...
For the purposes of this category, Central America comprises Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Central American Pacific Islands Wikimedia Commons has media related to Insects of Central America .
It is considered the most dangerous snake in Costa Rica, responsible for 46% of all bites and 30% of all hospitalized cases; before 1947, the fatality rate was 9%, but this has since declined to almost 0% (Bolaños, 1984), mostly due to the Clodomiro Picado Research Institute, [30] responsible for the production of snake antiophidic sera (which ...
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