This morning we went to Jungle Mike’s. He’s an entomologist from the US who moved to Costa Rica over 20 years ago. He showed us around his open-air butterfly farm, and taught us a lot about different bugs in the area. Many of us caught butterflies, and tried eating some termites. He told us that termites have three times as much protein per ounce of lean beef. He also gave us some different types of organic and homemade products of honey and coconut to try.
In the afternoon we went to the beach and helped Turtle Trax to section off parts of the beach to help them collect more exact data about the turtles that come to lay eggs on the beach. Some of us also helped to build a new hatchery for the area to help better protect the eggs from natural predators and poachers in the area.
