This is fun.
Spider plants
The Wilson Botanical Garden here at the Las Cruces OTS sation has over 3,000 species and 14,000 records. While exploring, I came across some spider plants… and it reminded me of the one I left in Savannah. While I think they are mis-labeled, here are a couple of species found at the botanical garden; mine looks more like the non-variegated specimen.
Río Java stream width
Alicia, David, and Mel take the stream width at the bottom of their first sampling site.
Altering flow of Río Java
Leaf mimicing katydid
I found a female with attached spermatophores, but failed to take a photograph. Here’s a male… still beautiful.
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.
Another Stream Anole Photo
I’ve seen and posted about Norops oxylophus on other trips, including to Hitoy Cerere, where this one was, and RBAMB.
