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Butterflies ID-ed

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...

Exciting caterpillars of every color, stripe, shape and size!

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...

Catching up after the World Cup!

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...

Midnight in the garden of Mariposas

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...

Hand raising mystery caterpillars

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...
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