Team Scarab members Brett Ratcliffe, Ron Cave (University of Florida), Mary Liz Jameson, and Jesus Orozco (PhD student in the Team Scarab lab) traveled to Belize for two weeks (27 May to 9 June 2008) to collect and make field observations in multiple localities. This trip was conducted for the NSF-sponsored project entitled "A Biotic Inventory of the Dynastine Scarabs of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize" with PIs Brett Ratcliffe and Ron Cave. After spending the first night in Belmopan in order to obtain permits, we proceeded to our first base camp at Mamanoots Backabush ecolodge just outside of Mayflower National Park in the Stann Creek District in the southern part of the country. After checking in, we immediately proceeded further south to the Cockscomb Jaguar Reserve to set fruit traps and intercept traps. We arrived back at Mamanoots at dusk to learn that the family dog had barely escaped a puma on the lodge grounds a couple of nights before! While watching for pumas, we set up our lights at Mayflower just down the road in heavy rain . . . not knowing that hurricane Alma from the Pacific was meeting tropical storm Arthur from the Atlantic right over Belize for what Belizean weather officials later termed the "perfect storm". And so it was for the next three days at Mamanoots: heavy rain. Fortunately, at least some scarabs fly in the rain and were attracted to our fruit traps, dung traps, intercept trap, and light traps. On our last day, Mary Liz was stung by a scorpion, and her tongue and palate went numb, causing us some concern.