Wednesday, July 27, 2011
It's baby season at SRS!
We have been seeing more and more herp babies and also catching some animals in ways not expected. Note the fence lizard in the sherman. We had a broadhead in a sherman as well!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR), North Carolina
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| Hi there! |
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| The mosquitoes are what you might call fierce. We go in fully armored and still barely come out alive. |
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| The bear seem to enjoy helping us rearrange our arrays. They took down several burlaps and chewed up a few coverboards. |
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| Burlap ransacking culprit! |
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Arenas, in the humid woods of TN
We have installed our arenas for future host preference experiments. Perhaps the most memorable part of the process was bringing the IACUC review committee out into the mosquito-infested poison ivy to check them, on an afternoon when the heat index was hovering around 105F...
More ticks on skinks (in the TN lab this time)
Here are some more photos of tick on skinks - these guys are participating in Rick and Cathy's Blood Meal Analysis (BMA)validation trials. Hopefully the Reverse Line Blot will show these ticks did indeed feed on lizards and not, say, wombats!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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