Here are my pics from a trip to the Broad Meadow Brook Audubon reserve in Worcester. Has vernal pools, habitat diversity, minks, beavers, and MOSQUITOS. The next day we drove 2hrs to Otis Air Base which is high security since it's where Obama lads for his vacation to Martha's Vineyard. At the base is the USDA headquarters for research on invasive species. Really neat place, learned a ton. They raise longhorn beetle, gypsy moth and emerald ash borer colonies and research them. They research fungicides, all kinds of stuff. Really neat to see this government science, a whole different world than academic research. "Our mission is to destroy," said the entomologist, emphasizing that research on ALB behavior was not allowed/funded. Then the entomologist took us to the farmer's market in Cape Cod which was almost ridiculously idyllic with trolleys, everyone wearing Ralph Lauren, and shutters on every window. Their performance of the whole Cape Cod thing is dead on. A loaf of bread was $8. Then we walked to the beach and swam in the balmy Atlantic!
wild raspberries
On of my roomies, Martha
ice cream stop! 97 degrees out!
this is Holden reservior, where I ride my bike around. Saw turkeys...
New England meadow
USDA invasive research headquarters for all of US (at Otis)
the enemy
ALB was here...
the coolest entomologist I've ever met and maybe maybe the coolest out there
ALB exit holes
this is where the gypsy moth food is made
and the eggs are raised
larvae EVERYWHERE
gypsy moth babies
the 'winter time' fridge
the commodities guys
ALB
Cape Cod bag lunch
this place is too perfect
like I said
the entomologist takes us to the beach by her house and Professor John refuses to put on swim trunks
the Atlantic!!!
roomie Abbie
the heroes can swim
me and Abbie
I'm swimming in the Atlantic!
osprey
back at the entomologist's house
