Photo album

MARTIN'S PHOTO ALBUM

Dendrobates granuliferus
Poison dart frog from Piedras Blancas, Costa Rica.
November 1999

Nina (daughter of Hannah Lowther), Eliza, and Martin, in Monteverde, Costa Rica.
We are on the Cloud Forest Trail, which includes suspension bridges high up in the forest canopy. June, 2000.

Imperial Martin:
"I'm a humble guy, with healthy desires"
Las Cruces, Costa Rica, June 2000

Corytophanes cristatus
A beautiful lizard, reminiscent of the days when reptiles ruled the world. Our day will come again. Las Cruces, Costa Rica. November 1999.

An adult tortoise beetle Eugenysa columbiana (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), near its larvae.
Las Cruces, Costa Rica, June 2000.

A water-bug (Belostoma), feeding on a tree frog (Smilisca phaeota), by injecting digestive enzymes and then sucking the good stuff out. I observed bugs feeding on two different frogs of this species right by a small pond where the frogs were calling. Interesting, I never saw bugs feeding on the much more abundant Hyla ebraccata. This latter species has a pungent smell, that may provide some chemical defense. Lens cap = 50mm diameter.

116 Oak Ave., Ithaca, NY
Yes, sometimes it snows in Ithaca. This is the grad student coop where I have been living (when I am not in the field) for the last 4 years. We are 12 students, each with our own rooms, but we share cooking, cleaning, and other responsibilities. Get to know people at their best, and their worst.

"Tank" caterpillars.
These caterpillars move together as one large mass, slowly crawling over one another, from back to front, like one large organism. Anyone know the species, genus, or family?

Villa Canta Rana
A.k.a. the "Cornell house". This is the house that Tom rents every year, and where he and his students (and others) live while in Costa Rica. The 1978 Toyota Landcruiser gets us to the field, usually.
Copal, Costa Rica 1999

Dendrobates pumilio
Bocas del Toro, Panama
This wide-spread poison-dart frog shows incredible color variation from one island to the next in this part of Cenral America.

Male glass frog (Hylanobatrachium sp.) guarding his clutch of eggs laid on a palm frond, overhanging a stream. When the larvae are more mature, they will hatch and fall in to the stream below, where they continue their development as tadpoles.
Piedras Blancas, Costa Rica.1999

Working in the field
Randy, Jeisson and I did a lot of work at night. We built this simple shelter as a station where we could process the animals we captured.
Las Cruces, Costa Rica, 2000

Family snapshot: Dad, Mom, Martin, and Nicole.
Portland, Maine. 1994.

	Dendrobates granuliferus Poison dart frog from Piedras Blancas, Costa Rica. November 1999

	Nina (daughter of Hannah Lowther), Eliza, and Martin, in Monteverde, Costa Rica. We are on the Cloud Forest Trail, which includes suspension bridges high up in the forest canopy. June, 2000.

	Imperial Martin: "I'm a humble guy, with healthy desires" Las Cruces, Costa Rica, June 2000

	Corytophanes cristatus A beautiful lizard, reminiscent of the days when reptiles ruled the world. Our day will come again. Las Cruces, Costa Rica. November 1999.

	An adult tortoise beetle Eugenysa columbiana (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), near its larvae. Las Cruces, Costa Rica, June 2000.

	A water-bug (Belostoma), feeding on a tree frog (Smilisca phaeota), by injecting digestive enzymes and then sucking the good stuff out. I observed bugs feeding on two different frogs of this species right by a small pond where the frogs were calling. Interesting, I never saw bugs feeding on the much more abundant Hyla ebraccata. This latter species has a pungent smell, that may provide some chemical defense. Lens cap = 50mm diameter.

	116 Oak Ave., Ithaca, NY Yes, sometimes it snows in Ithaca. This is the grad student coop where I have been living (when I am not in the field) for the last 4 years. We are 12 students, each with our own rooms, but we share cooking, cleaning, and other responsibilities. Get to know people at their best, and their worst.


	"Tank" caterpillars. These caterpillars move together as one large mass, slowly crawling over one another, from back to front, like one large organism. Anyone know the species, genus, or family?

	Villa Canta Rana A.k.a. the "Cornell house". This is the house that Tom rents every year, and where he and his students (and others) live while in Costa Rica. The 1978 Toyota Landcruiser gets us to the field, usually. Copal, Costa Rica 1999

	Dendrobates pumilio Bocas del Toro, Panama This wide-spread poison-dart frog shows incredible color variation from one island to the next in this part of Cenral America.

	Male glass frog (Hylanobatrachium sp.) guarding his clutch of eggs laid on a palm frond, overhanging a stream. When the larvae are more mature, they will hatch and fall in to the stream below, where they continue their development as tadpoles. Piedras Blancas, Costa Rica.1999

	Working in the field Randy, Jeisson and I did a lot of work at night. We built this simple shelter as a station where we could process the animals we captured. Las Cruces, Costa Rica, 2000

	Family snapshot: Dad, Mom, Martin, and Nicole. Portland, Maine. 1994.