These Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae (L. 1758)) are everywhere in the gardens. Hundreds of them fluttering around together with many dragon and damselflies.
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Below: A dragonfly? damselfly? posed for me this morning. I'm not a bug guy. No time to try and figure out for sure which species this fellow is.
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This true-color image of Mexico was acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft. In areal extent, Mexico is the third largest country on the continent of North America (not counting Greenland, which is a province of Denmark), comprised of almost 2 million square kilometers (756,000 square miles) of land. Home to roughly 100 million people, Mexico is second only to the United States in population, making it the world's largest Spanish-speaking nation.
To the north, Mexico shares its border with the United States—a line that runs some 3,100 kilometers (1,900 miles) east to west. About half of this border is defined by the Rio Grande, which runs southeast to the Gulf of Mexico (partially obscured by clouds in this image) and marks the dividing line between Texas and Mexico.
Toward the upper left (northwest) corner of this image is the Baja California peninsula, which provides the western land boundary for the Gulf of California.
Toward the northwestern side of the Mexican mainland, you can see the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains (brownish pixels) running southeast toward Lake Chapala and the city of Guadalajara. About 400 km (250 miles) east and slightly south of Lake Chapala is the capital, Mexico City. Extending northward from Mexico City is the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains, the irregular line of brownish pixels that seem to frame the western edges of the bright white cumulus clouds in this image. Between these two large mountain ranges is a large, relatively dry highland region.
To the south, Mexico shares borders with Guatemala and Belize, both of which are located south of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
El cambio climático amenaza con llevar a la megalópolis mexicana hacia una crisis ambiental sin precedentes.
Un estudio predice que un 10 por ciento de los mexicanos entre los 15 y 65 años podrían intentar emigrar al norte como resultado de las altas temperaturas, inundaciones y sequías, que probablemente desplazarían a millones de personas y aumentarían aún más las tensiones políticas sobre migración.
Los efectos del cambio climático son varios, pero una cosa es segura: siempre exponen las grandes vulnerabilidades de las ciudades, exacerbando los problemas que los políticos y los planificadores urbanos suelen ignorar o tratan de esconder bajo la alfombra. Se expanden hacia el exterior, desafiando fronteras.
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