At the Santa Rita Experimental Range south of Tucson. It's an amazing place but the internet is spotty! I'll try to get some pictures in:)
We started our caterpillar collection and I am learning the "experimental design" associated with this research study. Because there are a lot of different people collecting data it is really important that we do it exactly the same way so our results are correct.
We are looking at the relationship among the caterpillars, the plants they eat, and the parasitic wasps that lay their eggs on the caterpillars as a food source for their young- more on that later....
We collect them and bring them back to the lab where we give them a number, identify them and take their picture. We are keeping them in our"zoo" to watch them grow and see if they have the parasitoid.
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