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Sandra Garrett, Lindsay Abbott, Jim Dunford, Robin Minor, Clint Campbell and Elie Breaux discover how big trees can be in tropical cloud-forests, and how little light reaches the ground. |
Elie Breaux negotiates a red mangrove tree | |
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Robin Minor, Clint Campbell, Sandra Garrett and Lindsay Abbott practice their swing (photo J. Dunford) |
Acrocinus longimanus (photo J. Dunford) | |
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| A mercury-vapor lamp attracts a great array of insects at night at Rancho Grande (photo J. Dunford) | Golopha porteri (photo E. Breaux) | |
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| Leah Ayn Koch, Jennifer Simpson, Carlton Jane Palmer, Karen McKenzie and Richard Pluke at the Parque Nacional Henri Pittier signboard. | View from Portachuelo Pass in Parque Nacional Henri Pittier. | |
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| Part of Rancho Grande (HQ building for Parque Nacional Henri Pittier ) viewed through morning fog. | Carlton Jane Palmer checks seagrape foliage. | |
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| Richard Pluke records defoliation by leaf cutter ants. | Karen McKenzie searches for aquatic insects in bromeliad leaf axils. | |
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| Chauliognathus ?heros. | Heliconius erato. | |
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| Chris Tidroski, Leslie Fox, and Phillip Lake look for beetles in a mushroom fungus. | The instructor, Dr. Howard Frank, in a red mangrove swamp. | |
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| Jennifer Simpson, Leah Ayn Koch, Karen McKenzie, Carlton Jane Palmer, and Richard Pluke unroll a Heliconia leaf to discover hispine chrysomelids. | Dr. Marco Gaiani shows some of the more spectacular insects in MIZA's collection. | |
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| Leslie Fox picks up the catch in baited pitfall traps. | Leah Ayn Koch and Richard Pluke are discovered by mosquitoes in a mangrove swamp. | |
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| Leah Ayn Koch and Jennifer Simpson look for insect damage to a bunch of bananas. | Ricardina Colmenares shows cacao pods to Phillip Lake. | |
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| Chris Tidroski, Leslie Fox, and Phillip Lake discuss a bromeliad. | A launch carried the group to a secluded, mangrove-fringed bay. | |
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Carlton Jane Palmer leads the way on a trail in Parque Nacional Henri Pittier. |
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| Podischnus agenor (Scarabaeidae) in sugarcane stem. Photo: T.M. Cooper | Look carefully at the Vriesia platynema bromeliad inflorescences - some of them are paintings on plastic panels. Photo: T.M. Cooper | |
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| Teresa Cooper, Scott Portman and Miriam Shapiro off the Venezuelan coast. Photo: Hector Aguilar | Moncheca elegans (Tettigoniidae). Photo: Scott Portman | |
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| Eumorpha labruscae (Sphingidae). Photo: Scott Portman | Hypocrita excellens (Arctiidae). Photo: Scott Portman | |
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| Phrictus ocellatus (Fulgoridae). Photo: Scott Portman | Our boat among mangroves | |
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| Foliage and fruits of a neem tree | Erin Vrzal and Catherine Zettel ready to dig bat guano | |
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| Catherine Zettel, Sharon Clemmensen, Frank Wessels and Erin Vrzal pack bananas in a banana-packing facility at Punta Larga. Photo Dan Fitzpatrick. | Sharon Clemmensen, Catherine Zettel, Erin Vrzal, Frank Wessels, Dan Fitzpatrick and Mary Beth Henry hang out with Tomás and Lybia by the kitchen door | |
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| Dan Fitzpatrick, Catherine Zettel, Mary Beth Henry, Frank Wessels and Sharon Clemmensen at the beach at last. Photo Erin Vrzal. | Dan Fitzpatrick - it's big, but does it really urticate? Photo Sharon Clemmensen. | |
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| Frank Wessels and moths, all with red eyes. Photo Erin Vrzal. |
