Mud and Humidity

This place is really amazing, it's half botanic garden and half research station. The weather has been so reasonable, it's warm but not unbearable and it rains in the afternoon. You would think that we would swelter in our knee-high rubber boots but it's not actually too bad. It's definitely worth having them on for the mud and the snakes.
We started working on our group projects today. My group is going to look at the relationship between a group of ants and their host plant. The ants defend the plant from invaders (plant or insect) and the plant gives the ants a home and food from special structures at the base of the leaves.