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| Fairy Ink Cap mushrooms |
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| the group during the hike |
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| start of primary forest |
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| cameras for wildlife project |
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| white witch moth |
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| huge bamboo in the garden |
Rodo gave us a tour today of the garden and a guided walk through
the forest. The Wilson Botanical Garden featuring beautifully diverse plantings
of tropical and subtropical ornamentals, representatives of unusual plant
families and rare and endangered plants from Costa Rica and elsewhere. It also
boasts remarkable collections of cycads, tree ferns, aroids, bromeliads,
gingers, heliconias, marantas, and palms. We learned about the native and non-native
species in the garden. There is a plant called the Bromelia that has been here
for about 19 years and it still hasn’t bloomed(after they bloom they die); Rodo
hopes to see one bloom because he’s been working here years and hasn’t seen one
bloom yet. We saw some caterpillars that have evolved overtime to change their
colors to red and yellow to show predators that they are dangerous as a self-defense
mechanism. We also seen a moth that lands on trees vertically only because the pattern
on its wings are vertical. He also told us about a mammal that he would give a
prize to someone if they caught it. It sounded easy but he said he’s had that same
prize for 10 years because no one has been able to catch it (Zane almost caught
it but he wasn’t ninja enough :p ) We went through two different types of
forests a secondary and primary forest. You could see the difference between
the secondary and primary forests because in the primary we started to see more
insects, birds and amphibians there. The
hike back to the station was hard difficult in our rain boots and plus it was muddy
but I felt great afterwards. Since we will be doing a lot of hiking we will
probably all be built by the time the 2 weeks is up :D. In our meeting, we learned some specifics
about the projects we’ll be doing and we got to check out the lab equipment. Another
day another adventure! :)
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