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 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 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,...