by Pauline Hammer | Jun 20, 2014 | Costa Rican Insects, Life in Costa Rica, Mariposario Butterfly Garden
. The leaf cutter ants re-invaded. Turns out one foot of the table hadn’t been put into a wide enough oil container, allowing these persistent pillagers to cross the chasm, scale the table, and plunder again. So with almost perfectly dejavu detail we re-enacted...
by Pauline Hammer | Jun 18, 2014 | Costa Rican Insects, Life in Costa Rica
8:45pm. I’m worried about my black & yellow checkered checkered caterpillar. He’s stopped eating and keeps roaming restlessly around the box rejecting his host plant bottle or on any other twig, leaf or perch I try to offer him (I think he’s...
by Pauline Hammer | Jun 15, 2014 | Costa Rican Insects, Life in Costa Rica
As I said in my intro blog, my passions are latin dancing, photography, Spanish and whatever happens to have currently sparked my excitement down here. Right now it’s raising caterpillars. One who makes the butterfly garden its home is the battus. We have...
by Pauline Hammer | Jun 13, 2014 | Costa Rican Animals, Costa Rican Insects, Life in Costa Rica, Uncategorized
Living here is addicting. This sense that under any given leaf, in any tree, any tide pool, there probably is some new creature you’ve never seen before, that is intoxicating to me. Josh, my fiance, has been living here the better part of the last...
by Pauline Hammer | Jun 12, 2014 | Life in Costa Rica, Mariposario Butterfly Garden, Working at the Bed and Breakfast
Hi! This is Pauline. I am the fiance of one of the brother’s who owns the family business, Montezuma Gardens. I actually met Josh as a guest here at the bed and breakfast 6 years ago. But after years of long distance dating between Montana and Costa Rica,...
by ryan | Feb 24, 2012 | Life in Costa Rica
We are constantly trying to improve our little slice of heaven on earth here at the Butterfly Gardens in Montezuma. This year we made an addition to the Hammock area. There are 4 places to lay at rest and read a book or have a nice siesta.
by ryan | Feb 14, 2012 | small business, Working at the Bed and Breakfast
The beginning the the dry season in Costa Rica always brings new spark to life here. Tourists flood in from every corner of the world. Christmas and the new years bring families together to share this tropical paradise on the tip of the Nicoya Peninsula. And for us,...
by ryan | Nov 27, 2011 | Working at the Bed and Breakfast
In en effort to reduce the amount of plastic water bottles used in the area we are now offering one free 18oz Kleen Kanteen stainless steel BPA free water bottle with your room stay. Also, free Agua Cristal water to fill your new bottle during your stay! In 2004...
by ryan | Nov 15, 2011 | Life in Costa Rica, Working at the Bed and Breakfast
We now offer free filtered water with your stay at the Mariposario! In an effort to reduce the amount of non re-usable plastic water bottles, we are now offering complimentary 18oz Kleen Kanteen water bottles with your room rental. During your stay at the butterfly...
by ryan | Nov 8, 2011 | Costa Rican Animals, Costa Rican Insects, Life in Costa Rica, Uncategorized
I have to constantly pinch myself while living here in Costa Rica. Am I really here? Is this really happening? It is, and I love it. Everything is surreal and you are constantly in perpetual motion. As soon as one project finishes the next appears. It keeps you on...