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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> |
