My enclosures were still present, along with the fence.
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Tag Archives: Palo Verde
Stung
While Boa and I machete’d through 7 km of Thalia today collecting bags filled with nothing, I was stung by a wasp on the lip. What hurts worse than that, however, is the fact that I haven’t take a single pictures in Costa Rica yet! I’ve been busy, hot and tired. Everything seems to take twice as long because the wetland vegetation is 5 times as thick.
So, in honor of the wasp next I destroyed today, here is a wasp found at Jennings’ Woods, with an incredible ovipositor/abdomen.
To Palo Verde
Having ‘finished’ candidacy exams, I’m in San Jose and will be traveling to Palo Verde tomorrow morning with Boa. From what I’ve heard, the wetland at Palo Verde is relatively low for this time of year (it should be nearly double what it is currently [waist height]) and is full of thick vegetation. I hope I’m physically prepared to chop through 6 km of wetland vegetation tomorrow afternoon…
This photograph was taken soon after the wetland started filling. I will try to get a similar photo for comparison…
Tarantula
Someone asked if I saw large spiders in Palo Verde the other day. Yes. I did.
The were a fair number of them emerging from burrows during one week, presumably because it was breeding time. I found 3 individuals in the lab one morning, one of which had decided to rest on the light switch.
There were two distinct species (unless they were actually different sexes); pictured here was the larger one. Paul decided to pit them together one night and the larger of the two killed and deflated the smaller.
Black-crowned Night-herons
Kind of dark, but still cool.
Boa constrictor
A juvenile boa caught at Palo Verde that I would have loved to take home…
A resting demslyfly
Streak-backed oriole
Crotalus simus
It appears that the name of the Neotropical Rattlesnake was updated from Crotalus durissus to simus.
Fun with frass
This caterpillar used silk to construct a home by folding a part of a leaf over. The frass in the background of the second image is presumably from the caterpillar, although I didn’t notice any herbivory within the folded leaf.
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