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STATION 10
Ceiba Trail
A butterfly that prefers the heights:
Agrias aedon rodriguezi.
Chasing Butterflies
Imagine una vida sin tocar el suelo.
Muchas mariposas viven así: toda su vida
en lo alto del bosque, desde el huevo
hasta la muerte, sin bajar de las alturas.
Otras en cambio nunca vuelan a más de 4
metros de alto.
In Tirimbina, butterfly research began in
2003 and continues today. Researchers
collect larvae and also use traps with ripe
bananas to study butterflies that eat fruits.
In front of you there is a trap like the ones
they use, there are 60 in the whole forest.
With long-term studies like this we can
better understand the changes in butterfly
communities and in the future understand
the effects of phenomena such as climate
change on them.
Butterflies of the understory
Cithaerias menander
Pierella helvetia
Did you know… In Tirimbina, we discovered
butterflies never before described by
science. We find a species (Anastrus isidro)
and a sub-species (Cuniza hirlandia
tirimbina), new to the world.