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Written by Felipe Arcos Valencia Nov 16th<\/sup> 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Felipe sorting specimens in the Laboratorio de Entomolog\u00eda de la Universidad de la Amazonia, Florencia, Colombia. Photo: Felipe Arcos Valencia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My story with BioSmart and the CIAT team began with a phone call from my tutor, who told me that they required someone who knew about arthropods in the Amazon region to support in the entomology fieldwork and taxonomic identifications. They told me that I would work with foreign people with little knowledge of the Spanish language, and knowing that they had me in mind for support in this project I was filled with excitement and I accepted without hesitation.<\/p>\n

The day came and I met the whole team in a small meeting, after\u00a0going through\u00a0the schedule of\u00a0the\u00a0activities,\u00a0I interacted\u00a0with Mike Garratt (nice guy), we exchanged a few words in my\u00a0level of\u00a0English but we managed to understand each other. We talked about the methodologies that we would use\u00a0and about the arthropod orders of interest for the project (Spiders and Flies), while we made a tour around Florencia looking for the material\u00a0that we needed\u00a0to start this phase of the BioSmart project, finally we made an appointment for\u00a0the next day to start the fieldwork.<\/p>\n

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Araneae: Salticidae: Amycus sp. Photo: Felipe Arcos Valencia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fieldwork was not very difficult, despite\u00a0that\u00a0there were very hot days with a lot of sun and long walks, but finally\u00a0we\u00a0achieved\u00a0the objective. Then, I returned to Florencia and immediately started\u00a0work on the specimens collected in the first week, to\u00a0be able\u00a0to\u00a0join\u00a0Luis Miguel and Lois (the LULO team) in the field. We had fun\u00a0together\u00a0and developed a good camaraderie until the last day in the field and until the last day of\u00a0the CIAT team’s visit to Florencia.<\/p>\n

After almost a month of work, the pandemic began and\u00a0lockdown measures were imposed\u00a0throughout the country\u00a0because of\u00a0the situation\u00a0due to SARS-COVID 19,\u00a0and our work went into recess while the situation returned to normality. Finally, with the measure of working\u00a0from\u00a0home, we opted to bring specimens and stereoscopes to\u00a0our home so to\u00a0be able to carry out the work, fulfilling the objective by finding a large number of very beautiful and very interesting\u00a0critters.<\/p>\n

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Araneae: Trechaleidae: Neoctenus sp. Female. Photo: Felipe Arcos Valencia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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