Danielle Salcido

Well my friends, family, colleagues (colleagues that are practically family) .....WE DID IT!!!! Today, with your help, the campaign was funded! I owe many thanks for the generosity and support disp...

Hi all! I am pleased to announce a few bits of good news: First, Experiment.com gave us a one-time 10-day extension for the campaign! Second, yesterday we raised over $1139 or ~20% of the proposed...

Hello friends, family and supporters!  Our campaign is ending soon, I only have more 1 day to get this project funded or my project will not move forward. So far $3, 913 has been pledged. I am 63% ...

Hi all! It has been a little while since our last post. Beto is hard at work at LaSelva, Costa Rica maintaining the specimens we collected in February and I have since returned to the University of...

Hi all! You asked and we listened! Below is the video "Lessons from Beto: Plant Identification" explaining the characteristics he looks for to identify plants that otherwise look very similar. Pla...

Hey there! I wanted to follow up on a previous lab note we posted regarding how to search for caterpillars using patterns of herbivory. In the previous post, Beto and I discussed how to focus your ...

Hi all! I wanted to share with you the parasitoids we have reared up to this point. Many of the caterpillars we have collected are still developing, and that may mean parasitoids are developing too...

Hi all! Today we have a video of Beto Garcia giving a quick tutorial that addresses one method we use to find caterpillars. Check it out below!We casually refer to the method Beto describes as our ...

We take images of each caterpillar we collect as a digital record. This allows us to reference images of caterpillars after they have developed to adults. These images help us identify caterpillars...