Alamo, Poplar tree, shakes in wind with rustling noise. Strangely tapered leaf
A species of lupin, found near the road in the temperate rainforest near exploradoras glacier
In bloom with purple flowers
Poplar tree. Common tree found in the United States, introduced in Chile. Seen in Los West Winds campground in Valle Cachabuco (bought by Tompkins years ago). Very tall skinny tree planted in a row.
Poplar tree found in Chacabuco valley. Non native tree for this area. Found planted next to our campsite within the reserve.
Found in a flat, boggy expanse of sphagnum and other plants in the early evening on a cloudy day. Overall length around 1.5 cm. Its skin was vaguely bumpy/warty and it didn’t hop away very quickly.
Found approximately 100m from the edge of a glacier on a north facing slope. Elevation was approximately 1120m. This individual was growing in a small gulley with a fast flowing rivulet nearby.
unsure if this is gaultheria mucronata. it seems really similar but it seems to be much pinker berries than other gaultheria mucronata I have seen.
Mistletoe spp. (Misodendrum) Found growing on Lenga tree outside of Lago Jenimeni. about 300 m from the main road. Used this tree for seed collection and found this species along the northern side of the tree.
Poplar spp. (Populus) very tall at above 50 feet tall. Found very abruptly along campsite. Common occurrence in location due to tree helping with blocking wind. Found a wall of these trees at Los West Winds campsite that is located in Chacabuco Valle in Patagonia National Park in the pampas region.
Sitting in thick grass in a lenga forest on a cloudy day. Flew away rapidly after being caught.
Large black moth! Seen in a warm quincho in the morning not moving very much, and then photographed later with its wings out moving around and flying. Very fuzzy head and long antennae.
Two small invertebrates found on the underside of a rock, completely submerged in the Rio Cochrane, in a slow-moving, shallow area. They wiggle around quite a lot. There are small green bubbly eggs of some sort, or maybe an algae, on the rock with them. Maybe a nymph of some kind.
Mother hen and five chicks
Foraging throughout puerto guadal
Kept some distance from cars and people, but did not flee too readily
Overcast day, maybe 11 degrees c?
Common dandelion found in an open field in Chacobuco valley. Lingulate leaves because all of the petals have the same shape, only changes in density towards the center.
Deciduous tree growing in Cerro Castillo. Very tall, around 10 meters in height, branches primarily in the over-story, growing in a forest.
5 to 7 terns flew about above our camping area—a mixture of pastures and quinchos— for 12 to 16 minutes. It was partially cloudy as seen in the photos but the sun still shone through. There was a steady breeze of 10 to 15 Beaufort scale. The terns made sweeping circles above the camp ranging 2 to 10 meters above the ground, landing for just a second every minute or so to peck at something unknown by me. They had long narrow wings with black patches near the ends and smaller white patches at the very ends of their wings. They had black heads and white bodies.
Spiders found on the window pane of a rustic building at 10pm. It was found crawling up the wall near a window. The building it is living in is fully enclosed. It could have entered the building under the door (there’s a crack 2cm between door and cement floor). There are also windows in the room which could’ve been left open. I think it’s name is Jeff
INSANE LOOKING BEETLE! COOLEST BEETLE IN THE WORLD! Looks like it’s back is covered in green sparkles, BRIGHT blue antennas and legs and wings outlined in a vibrant red. This was seen near a waterfall at relatively low elevation. SOMEONE PLS IDENTIFY IT!
Notes: Skinny poplar with red stem branching in an alternating pattern. DBH of around 8cm. Trunk was smooth and grey with some splotches of white lichen or green mosses. The tree was around 7 meters in height. Izzy (5ft 5inches) for scale.
Habitat: found in Tortel in south western Chile near the pacific coast. Tortel is built right onto the coastline and between the mountains. Most of the town was on boardwalks above oceans and soggy wetland substrate loaded with absorbent spaghnum. We learned that the spaghnum takes in so much water that it often reduces the water resources to nothing during the dry season. Based on our observations it rains frequently in Tortel with rain everyday since our arrival and cool, foggy temperatures. The ecology is that of a temperate rainforest with species at each level dominating accordingly.
Notes: Plant with thick, bumpy stalks shooting out from a singular base under the ground. The leaves were wide and deeply cupped with a total diameter of around 1.5 meters. The plant was flowering with a single maroon stalk sticking out at the base.
Habitat: found in Tortel in south western Chile near the pacific coast. Tortel is built right onto the coastline and between the mountains. Most of the town was on boardwalks above oceans and soggy wetland substrate loaded with absorbent spaghnum. We learned that the spaghnum takes in so much water that it often reduces the water resources to nothing during the dry season. Based on our observations it rains frequently in Tortel with rain everyday since our arrival and cool, foggy temperatures. The ecology is that of a temperate rainforest with species at each level dominating accordingly.
Notes: very large Darwin's bar berry or bread.
Habitat: this was in a Nirre forest, somewhat disturbed in a wet area near lago brown. A lot of Darwin's bread was growing on every tree, very large.
Also known as mistletoe and old man’s bead. Greenish yellowish growth found on lenga trees. Wrinkled texture with stubby ends. Hangs off of lenga trees.
Also called mistletoe and old man’s beard. Different growth structure, protruding straight from lenga twigs. Has parts similar to leaves with dark red mosh brown appearance. Found on eastern aspect of hill.
I found this caddisfly larva crawling on the bottom of a rock in a small quick moving stream in an old growth Lenga forest. The center tail is broken off but I can still tell that there are three tails. I hypothesize that this little macro invertebrate was looking for material to make a casing house in so it could transform into its adult form. We found stone fly larva and other caddisflies making casings in the same stream