While tagging trees during a transect, we found this strange creature walking up the trunk of a tree. It was about an inch long and looked like a Tribble, with a shaggy white burden on its back. The fuzz was soft, but I wasn’t sure what it was made of. Even a brief touch dislodged…

The rainy season isn’t due for a few more months, but we were drenched yesterday by a late afternoon thunderstorm. Laying in a hammock at the lab, watching lightning flashes across the lake and the far shore erased by the clouds, I realized not only by how happy I was not to be in the…