I found a female with attached spermatophores, but failed to take a photograph. Here’s a male… still beautiful.
Tag Archives: Las Cruces
Impatiens sp.
Impatiens spp. are blooming along roads and forest gaps.
A large scarabaeidae beetle
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Bat mist netting
A couple of mentors for NAPIRE, the program I’m working with this summer in Costa Rica, are guiding students in collecting bat-data… Currently, they have used mist nets to collect bats near the station and they data a myriad of data from each bat. Here are some photos of their collections. Look out for the bat parasites (bat flies in this case)!
Also posted on Facebook.
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A quick peek at diversity with a black light
Like the other OTS stations and many other field stations found in Costa Rica, Las Cruces has a black-light + white-sheet set-up to attract nocturnal insects for viewing. Here’s some quick shots I took last night.
Confluence of Río Java and Quebrada Cunsingo
Underwater photography
John, an Austrailian visiting Las Cruces, set up his camera on a piece of bamboo to get some underwater shots of fish. There were a few good ones of characids investigating the camera. He intends on pioneering this method in stream ecology circles.
Great Tinamou
Nope, just a feather of Tinamu major.
Headed to Las Cruces
Dam along Río Java
The streams at Las Cruces are fairly impacted. There are a handful of smaller streams (1st-2nd order) that drain only secondary or primary forest, but most of the larger streams run through some abandoned pasture or have some sort of flow management impact like this one. My students are interested in water quality, so these impacts make for good gradients to survey.