Emerald Green Tree Boa Photo taken at Houston's Downtown Aquarium

Striped Eel Catfish: Plotosus is a genus of eeltail catfishes native to the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific Ocean and New Guinea. The scaleless skin is coated in mucus, and its mouth is surrounded by four pairs of sensory barbels. The spines of the serrated dorsal fin, which can lock into an erect position, are covered in toxic mucus that can be poisonous to humans. Photo taken at Downtown Aquarium

Caterpillars are the larval form of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). The geometrids, also known as inchworms or loopers, are so named because of the way they move, appearing to measure the earth (the word geometrid means earth-measurer in Greek). Photo taken in my front yard.