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Field Season Over
13 years ago
Wow! Yesterday we finished up the season. In the end I think we had to freeze and vial 400 of our caterpillars for lack of manpower to keep rearing them, but other than that it's been a wonderful summer! I think we took in and reared about 2,000 caterpillars, and I have photographs of all of them! In most cases I have several photographs of each!
I really want to show them all off, but hopefully this winter I'll be employed to clean them all up, post some or all of them to bugguide and MAKE A FIELD GUIDE TO CATERPILLARS WITH A KEY. ALSO they know I'm artsy fartsy so they're going to pay me to make a caterpillar watermark and maybe teeshirts. LOL.
((I also have an idea for a taxonomic publication that I'm pretty excited about but we'll have to wait for the DNA barcode stuff to come back firsttt))
SO ANYWAY. I'm taking this weekend off for myself. These past two weeks we worked every day from 7AM-5ish and I'm exhausted. But after thatttt there will be art. I hope to finish up commissions and some needlefelting projects and some illustrations for a children book collaboration andandandandand
((I'm excited to not be tired every day but afraid of my paychecks ending. sigh seasonal work))
I do have a lot of pet caterpillars now, but I'll miss collecting them and rearing them and taking pictures of their beautiful little faces (can you believe that was my job? photographing the caterpillars? I'msoluckywhyisitover.
I really want to show them all off, but hopefully this winter I'll be employed to clean them all up, post some or all of them to bugguide and MAKE A FIELD GUIDE TO CATERPILLARS WITH A KEY. ALSO they know I'm artsy fartsy so they're going to pay me to make a caterpillar watermark and maybe teeshirts. LOL.
((I also have an idea for a taxonomic publication that I'm pretty excited about but we'll have to wait for the DNA barcode stuff to come back firsttt))
SO ANYWAY. I'm taking this weekend off for myself. These past two weeks we worked every day from 7AM-5ish and I'm exhausted. But after thatttt there will be art. I hope to finish up commissions and some needlefelting projects and some illustrations for a children book collaboration andandandandand
((I'm excited to not be tired every day but afraid of my paychecks ending. sigh seasonal work))
I do have a lot of pet caterpillars now, but I'll miss collecting them and rearing them and taking pictures of their beautiful little faces (can you believe that was my job? photographing the caterpillars? I'msoluckywhyisitover.
