by Pauline Hammer | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
This is the last blog post I’ll be writing on site here in Montezuma for the next few months. Josh & I are flying back up to my home state of Montana in a week to take some time off and finish putting together all the details for our September 28 wedding!...
by Pauline Hammer | Aug 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
A lot of the pictures I take here at the Mariposario don’t make it onto the blog but do get posted on our facebook. For those who check both I try not to double up on pictures and info too much but today’s series of facebook posts seemed too good...
by Pauline Hammer | Jul 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
As I said in my last post, living here I have managed to amass over 6,00o pictures in my butterfly picture file alone. Of course, I reached a critical mass somewhere in there and realized I was going to have to break those pictures down into some smaller files. I knew...
by Pauline Hammer | Jul 25, 2014 | Costa Rican Insects, Mariposario Butterfly Garden
Confession – I don’t consider myself a science person. I am wildly enamored with the wildlife here and I’m known at the bed & breakfast for getting really excited about every new little creature we find. But I don’t read science...
by Pauline Hammer | Jul 18, 2014 | Costa Rican Insects, Mariposario Butterfly Garden
Lots happening in the caterpillar lab the last couple weeks! Found a bunch of these beautiful black & white caterpillars on a Cecropia tree right off of our balcony. We rescued all of them (as they would have almost surely become wren food...