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 The sole purpose of this post is to show off this giant leaf. 

 

It is in the genus is Gunnera [Gunneraceae].

 

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First full day of collecting

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Entering: Cloud Forest

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Greetings all, Andrew writing here. Our arrival yesterday went very smooth, and preparations for the fieldwork portion are going well. Today I picked up the collection permits and some gear I’d left in-country from the last trip, as well as changed money, ran errands, etc. I’ve asked the three KU undergrads to write a paragraph about their initial impressions of Costa Rica, particularly as it is the first time out of the country for most of them.

Final Check...

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Heading to Costa Rica

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Why Mosquitoes?

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Why mosquitoes?  Of all the amazing and beautiful rain forest animals to study, why would anyone want to work with this lowly, annoying bug that drives us crazy while sitting on porches on summer evenings?  They spread disease, too.  Why would anyone want to mess with that?

Sampling Heliconias

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My side project for this trip was to study arthropod diversity in two species of heliconia plants.  I worked on the project with Riley and Tom.  In both species we looked in leaf rolls and in inflorescences of the plant.  We unrolled the leaves and dissected the flower. It was interesting as with each opening it was exciting to see what kind of animals we would find.  We ended up seeing about 10 species repeatedly, but we had some surprises too.

Travel is Education

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We are all now back home, having arrived on Monday, bleary-eyed. It's been a long few days, full of travel, packing, unpacking, repacking, and airport-sitting.

We woke early to catch the boat from the CICRA field station to Laberinto, then a bus to the airport, followed by a flight back to Lima. We spent a day and a half in Lima as we pleased, and then we prepared the specimens for their flight back to the U.S.

 

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