Madre Verde

Madre Verde

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March 6th 2006

Published: March 30th 2006

For the next five months (until July 25) I will be working at a butterfly garden named Madre Verde outside of San Ramon, Costa Rica. It's pretty simple work consisting of little more than making sure the butterflies have food (bananas) everyday, moving the caterpillars to different trees with better leaves (hojas en español), watering the plants, and moving new butterflies from the "nursery" to t... Read Full Entry

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Colin Lenehan

loveoflife87

I am a music-loving 19 year-old Caucasian male from Chelsea, MI, USA. I just completed an incredible five-month stay in Costa Rica where I volunteered at a butterfly farm as part of an organization known as AFS (www.afs.org). I plan on attending college in the fall of 2007, possibly majoring in music technology and composition. In the meantime, I'm earning some money as a pharmacy tech at CVS/Pharmacy. Check out my music at http://xolinmedia.tripod.com Wanna drive to Costa Rica? Use this map! --> http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_1PA.html ... full info

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Colibrí Colirrayado (Rufous-tailed Hummingbird)

There are a lot of these guys around Madre Verde

Gersón

The 11 year-old son of the local family who I'm pretty sure has CP. I've been doing my best just to be friendly and playing with him. I hope it makes his days a little brighter.

Feast

Them some hungra buttaflies!

Nursery

So many soon-to-be butterflies!

Bananas

The butterflies' favorite food

Larvas

Look at all those little baby caterpillars!

Blue-crowned Motmot

I was in the butterfly shed minding my own business, when this beautiful bird flew in through the door and tried to get through the mesh windows. Obviously surprised, I snatched my camera and took at least 10 shots as well as a short movie. It definitely made my day!

Caligo eurilochus sulanus

Awesome camoflague (spelling?); it's common to find these guys hanging onto the side of a tree like this.

Caligo caterpillars

They are a little different from the morpho caterpillars. I like the hard "spikes" on the head.

In the leaves

The caligo caterpillars hide/sleep in dried leaves to make it harder for anyone (or anything) to find them.

Dyras julia

There's a butterly somewhere in here...

Morpho close-up

Can't get much closer!

Phoebis sennae

The pupa is beautiful...

Hmm...

Where's Phoebis?

There she is!

Looked like a leaf!

Pupa

The transparency indicates that a butterfly's just about to come out. Notice the eyes at the bottom...

Hormiga león (name to be confirmed)

Reminds me of those battle droid tanks in Episode III

Nice timing

I was taking a casual picture of this flower when some nobody mariposa flies in and starts to have a snack! How rude!

Awe-inspiring

You can catch this view by hiking up the mountain located in the local family's backyard!

Canine poverty

Unfortunately, homeless dogs are common here in Costa Rica.

Farm house

The home of the local family

28th June 2006

From Mom
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Just when I thought I'd seen them all, you keep adding more (or so it seems) ...love your shots...I guana closeup is awesome!! Keep 'em comin'

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