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FLAAR Reports has two divisions; you are now on one of the web sites of the tropical Mesoamerica flora and fauna team. If you are interested in wide-format inkjet printers, we have an entire network to explain this technology: www.wide-format-printers.org

There is also a growing team of illustrators and graphic designers who do educational children’s books (to show the world the remarkable plants and animals of 2000 years of Mayan civilization in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador).

To experience remarkable tropical flowers of Guatemala, enjoy our www.maya-ethnobotany.org.

To experience remarkable animals of Guatemala and Mayan Culture, enjoy our www.maya-ethnozoology.org.

This conference is made to present the importance of nutrition among Guatemalan children, especially in rural areas, and the health benefits that this can have in the Mayan society.

Posted December 22, 2017

Plantas Comestibles Nutritivas para Mejorar Significativamente la Dieta y Salud de los Niños en las Zonas Rurales de Guatemala

This conference is made to present the importance of nutrition among Guatemalan children, especially in rural areas, and the health benefits that this can have in the Mayan society.

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You can download the formal invitation in the link above.

Solitary bees found and photographed in Rabinal, Baja Verapaz. Photo by Erick Flores, FLAAR.

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We have been doing so much research and photographing insects, plants, animals and eco-systems that we have not updated this Mayan characters web site very much. But you can find monthly updates on our Facebook page.

Pollinators are important worldwide, because if there were no pollinators, what food would we have to eat? Literally.

A substantial percentage of the food we eat does not reproduce unless pollinated (mostly by insects).

Plus, the forests, fields and seasonal Neotropical rain forests would not have any more trees, vines, bushes, or remarkable blooming plants if there were no pollinators.

We will are doing research primarily with high-resolution cameras, though of course it is not easy to be “at the right place at the right time” to capture every pollinator. But if funding becomes available we can send teams to pertinent eco-systems.

Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds of course are well known pollinators. We will focus on showing the world the wasps, beetles, flies, moths and other insects who also are pollinators (so people don’t kill them with pesticides.

Plus reptiles and mammals (micoleon) are pollinators.

For educational programs for children, adults (and the grandparents of school and college students) this information will be helpful.

Most of all, we wish to help preserve the flora and fauna of Guatemala and Mesoamerica.

Posted November 25, 2017

Here we are showing some of the Mayan comic book characters drawn by in-house FLAAR illustrator Melanny Celeste Quinonez Izquierdo. All our research and development of comic book characters is done by our own team, in-house.

We have lots of Mayan animal characters to introduce; we start with samples. Here we start with a friendly family of Ring-tailed Cat, Bassariscus sumichrasti. Of course these are not kitty cats, despite their common name.

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