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 | Jun 28, 2014 | Costa Rican Animals, Costa Rican Insects, Life in Costa Rica, Mariposario Butterfly Garden
Oh wow has it been a full couple weeks! Here’s a few of the things happening these days! The butterfly lab is getting overhauled! Walls are getting knocked down, cement’s getting mixed on the floor, cinder blocks laid… while I stand in...
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...