E. isola

Out looking for Mitoura at Big Spring State Park, I kept running into these guys. Puddling, fluttering around in a very Mitoura-like way on the juniper (not their host plant by the way), and enjoying the bliss that is the transition between spring and summer. Cute. But still, not Mitoura.

nectar sources...

where Mitoura love to be

Science Cafes

Forgot... I wanted to post this link. I would like to attend/participate/organize one of these... you know, in my free time.

Monthly, at best?

This is difficult to maintain. But, it's important. I want to put down on virtual paper what I am experiencing from day to day. It helps to go back and read what I wrote, back then...
I did go to west Texas with Lee. We did catch Mitoura. And, I will go back in about a week...
I've got an incubator and a half full of caterpillars (excuse me, larvae) hopefully feeding away happily on Juniperus. Or, not... that is what I will be recording.
I gave my first talk about my research last Friday in Junction, Texas. I was nervous as hell all the way up until I opened my mouth, then I just had to go with it. I was glad to do it. I don't know if I explained what I was doing well, or if it made sense, or if I talked too fast. Sometimes it's difficult to say "herbivorous insects" fluently. But, I thought that was easier than "phytophagous insects."
I don't know what's next. I shouldn't even think about that, now. I should just finish this Master's degree! Not that I'm in any particular hurry. I like it here, I like what I'm doing, I like being in school and stretching what I am capable of... of trying to be ambitious, to take, and to move forward. Or up. Some kind of progressive direction.