It felt great being back in the jungle. The next morning when the guys turned up for work they laughed when they saw that I was back, amused that I couldn’t stay away, but welcoming me home. I had initially planned to only stay two nights, but of course I ended up staying longer, every evening before I was planning […]Read Post ›
When writing on here I usually take extracts from my diary, editing it so that it is not so personal. However my time in Khao Chong means a lot to me and so I am not going to edit this post. I shall simply transcribe what I have written in my diary. Friday the 28th of November […]Read Post ›
The last few days have been spent in the field setting up light traps in the evening, leaving them over night and then collecting any moths that they have caught early the next morning. I am nearly near the end of my time here in Khao Chong, so have been making the most of being […]Read Post ›
Before I left for Thailand, my supervisor in Oxford gave me 100 little green plasticine caterpillars to bring with me to Khao Chong. They form part of a study that measures the density of predation rates on caterpillars (seed predators). The fake caterpillars are stuck onto leaves with superglue and then checked every day for […]Read Post ›
The other week Pitoon decided that it was about time we did a termite transect in the forest. This is part of the long term monitoring of the termite population in the Khao Chong plot. So as to ensure that the termite population within the plot are effected by the sampling process, the transect is […]Read Post ›
250 degrees east 