Post by lepidofrance on Jan 14, 2012 10:05:50 GMT -8
Dear Wollastoni,
I spent many sojurns south of Cancun years ago (between 1970 and 2005) and I used to collect butterfflies on several good remote locations (between Cancun and the South of Tulum).
To-day, most (if not all) of these excellent biotops (for example : so many Morpho peleides, P. cresphontes, Heliconiinae, Ithomiinae, etc.) have been destroyed to build tourists resorts. It's a shame ! Even if beaches are always wonderful. I checked these places on Google Earth : only hotels, resorts, etc.
Would be interesting to prospect South of Tulum (between Tulum and Punta Allen), but
- it's a reservation area ! (Sian Kaan Biosphere)
- it would be a bit far from Cancun
The only possibility would be to go along the Cancun / Chitsen Ixa road and find a little path into the dry forest : morphos but also spiders (many) ... And not so easy because, as seen on Google Earth, urbanization is growing fast ...
In these times (1970 to 2005), there was no problem to collect butterflies even in archeological areas (Chitchen, Uxmal, Palenque, Bonampak, Laguna Lacandon, etc.)
. It's only in Yaxchilan (along Rio Usumacinta) that the Ranger told me not to collect inside the ruins ! Of course, the Chiapas rainforest is much more interesting than the Yucatan and Quintana Roo dry forest.
I spent many sojurns south of Cancun years ago (between 1970 and 2005) and I used to collect butterfflies on several good remote locations (between Cancun and the South of Tulum).
To-day, most (if not all) of these excellent biotops (for example : so many Morpho peleides, P. cresphontes, Heliconiinae, Ithomiinae, etc.) have been destroyed to build tourists resorts. It's a shame ! Even if beaches are always wonderful. I checked these places on Google Earth : only hotels, resorts, etc.
Would be interesting to prospect South of Tulum (between Tulum and Punta Allen), but
- it's a reservation area ! (Sian Kaan Biosphere)
- it would be a bit far from Cancun
The only possibility would be to go along the Cancun / Chitsen Ixa road and find a little path into the dry forest : morphos but also spiders (many) ... And not so easy because, as seen on Google Earth, urbanization is growing fast ...
In these times (1970 to 2005), there was no problem to collect butterflies even in archeological areas (Chitchen, Uxmal, Palenque, Bonampak, Laguna Lacandon, etc.)
. It's only in Yaxchilan (along Rio Usumacinta) that the Ranger told me not to collect inside the ruins ! Of course, the Chiapas rainforest is much more interesting than the Yucatan and Quintana Roo dry forest. 
