Today we toured the Las Cruces Biological Station. These are some kind of Caterpillar (bear with me we are taking in a lot of information 😁) Their bright red and yellow stripes are a warning that they are poisonous and keeps them safe.
This is a very special Garden because it is not only native plants of Costa Rica but also plants that have been transported form all over the world. To allow them to survive they have had to modify things such as the amount of sunlight plants are receiving by strategically placing them, also the amount of available water. This is modified by the slope they are planted on, location relative to other plants and altering the soils underneath allowing for water to run off.
This was such a cool thing to experience, this was a tree at onetime that had died and other trees had grown around it eventually leaving only the living trees standing.
Right after lunch I looked over to see this beautiful bird, the picture does not do the color justice.
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