Danielle Salcido

Danielle Salcido

University of Nevada, Reno

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Published on Apr 06, 2018

I would like to extend my gratitude...

Well my friends, family, colleagues (colleagues that are practically family) .....WE DID IT!!!! Today, with your help, the campaign was funded! I owe many thanks for the generosity and support disp...

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Published on Apr 02, 2018

Extended deadline and thank you from Beto...

Hi all! I am pleased to announce a few bits of good news: First, Experiment.com gave us a one-time 10-day extension for the campaign! Second, yesterday we raised over $1139 or ~20% of the proposed...

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Published on Apr 01, 2018

1 more day to meet goal...and pictures from Wilmer

Hello friends, family and supporters!  Our campaign is ending soon, I only have more 1 day to get this project funded or my project will not move forward. So far $3, 913 has been pledged. I am 63% ...

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Published on Mar 19, 2018

Update on parasitoids collected on this trip...

Hi all! It has been a little while since our last post. Beto is hard at work at LaSelva, Costa Rica maintaining the specimens we collected in February and I have since returned to the University of...

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Published on Feb 27, 2018

Lessons with Beto....

Hi all! You asked and we listened! Below is the video "Lessons from Beto: Plant Identification" explaining the characteristics he looks for to identify plants that otherwise look very similar. Pla...

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Published on Feb 23, 2018

More on Patterns of Herbivory....

Hey there! I wanted to follow up on a previous lab note we posted regarding how to search for caterpillars using patterns of herbivory. In the previous post, Beto and I discussed how to focus your ...

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Published on Feb 23, 2018

More parasitoids!

Hi all! I wanted to share with you the parasitoids we have reared up to this point. Many of the caterpillars we have collected are still developing, and that may mean parasitoids are developing too...

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Published on Feb 19, 2018

Caterpillar Hunting...

Hi all! Today we have a video of Beto Garcia giving a quick tutorial that addresses one method we use to find caterpillars. Check it out below!We casually refer to the method Beto describes as our ...

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Published on Feb 18, 2018

Keeping Digital Records....

We take images of each caterpillar we collect as a digital record. This allows us to reference images of caterpillars after they have developed to adults. These images help us identify caterpillars...

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*Too funny :)
Apr 07, 2018
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To funny! Thank you so much Wayne!!!! Thank you for your commitment to our projects!
Apr 06, 2018
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Thanks Ron! Yes I was very happy to learn that we had extended time! If I succeed I can honestly say it wouldn't have been without your contribution. Thanks, for watching the progress of this campaign and rooting for us to its end.
Apr 02, 2018
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Hope you meet your goal and my little bit helps. After seeing your pledge to my project I was able to find you, and equally love the work your lab does. I found many parallels between you and I had to support your project, Meera: I too was formerly a teacher and I work with Earthwatch Citizen science on our project. I found that inspiring that we both jumped into the world of academia to pursue a PhD and make sure to incorporate the public into our work! Good luck.
Mar 19, 2018
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Nicole! Glad you asked that because I didn't make that part clear. You can use them in the tropics (and we have before), but there are a few issues in the tropics to consider, that can make beat sheets less useful for what we need to do, but could still work in other cases: 1) First and foremost for our project (which catalogues interaction data), we need to ensure accurate caterpillar-host plant associations. Thus, we need to use methods that give us confidence a caterpillar came from a particular host-plant. In the tropics, vegetation is dense and plants are intertwined with each other. In that case, if we use a beat sheet, it would be hard to make a host plant association with certainty because we would not be able to determine from which plant it came. 2) Understory plants in the tropics include a lot of shrubs and young trees with few very large leaves, or are vines that are intertwined with other plants. In these cases, it is just more efficient to look under the leaves. A beat sheet could be destructive and cumbersome for plants like these. In temperate regions, in the sites I have collected, you come across relatively large and dense shrubs (e.g. Ceanothus or rabbitbrush) or trees (e.g. oaks and juniper) and beat sheets work great for these because you can hit a large area of a single plant and the robust branches will hold up to the beat sheet method. 3) It is very wet in the tropics, and beat sheets are most efficient when you can gently shake of the debris to reveal caterpillars stuck to the sheet using their prolegs. If the canvas beat sheet is wet, debris sticks and it just makes it tough to reveal caterpillars. 4) Many caterpillars we find in Costa Rica are shelter builders. These roll up leaves. a beat sheet is unlikely to work on many of these and you do not need a beat sheet to spot them. 5) Bullet ants! In Costa Rica this is an issue to consider when using beat sheet methods. 6) The first time I used a beat sheet I was in the tropics (Ecuador). We used it to hit Chusquea (bamboo. For tropical plants, like Chusquea that dominate an area, the beat sheet method can work. This is also true for many plants in dry tropical forests. . Hope this helped clarify the many uses of beat sheets!
Feb 23, 2018
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I tried changing the settings. Can you let me know if it worked? Thanks.
Feb 17, 2018
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