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...
by Pauline Hammer | Jul 13, 2014 | Costa Rica culture, Life in Costa Rica, Mariposario Butterfly Garden
Ok, that’s it. I need to do more frequent blog posts. Initially my goal was to post one a week. The problem is by the time the week is over I’m overwhelmed by all the possible things I could write about and I put off writing anything! So this week...
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...