Update

It's been such a long time since I posted anything on here! Since I got back from Korea in fact... I've been working on the guide since I got back and I have quite a bit done. Next quarter will be focused on finishing that, so between break and next quarter I hope to get it finished up and published. A couple weeks ago I found some papers that were published this year that included floristic studies and birds and insects of Ulleungdo. I've been using these to check my information and to identify anything that I haven't yet identified. Just today I went through the entire list of insects on the island and identified all 20 of the insects I took pictures of (not including spiders because those are not insects). Yay!

Here are a few previews of what the guide is going to look like:

Here are a few illustrations I've done recently:

Hmmmm don't know why these all came out so gray

Jeju part 3: Hallasan

Today I finally climbed Hallasan, the mountain at the center of the island. It was a tough hike, 12 miles round trip over rocky terrain, and I am exhausted.

Roe Deer

The lakes at the summit of the mountain

A rock formation on the ridge of the crater

Thistle

Ixeris sp. (maybe)

Saussurea sp. 

Leontopodium hallaisanensis - it's a little hard to tell for sure because the flowers are a little mottled

Aconitum sp. - they definitely look like they're plotting something

A fly that looks like a bee...Batesian mimicry! I made up a little thing to help remember which is which: Batesian - B for benevolent, Müllerian - M for malevolent

Maybe a Cacalia sp.? 

Lycopodium - club moss

Asarum maculatum

Jeju part 2

Today was a busy day. First I went to the Jeju Fossil Museum - I love studying plants and ecology and birds, but there's just something about fossils that always gets me really excited. After that, I went to a UNESCO site - a crater - which was a tourist trap with not a lot to look at...plus the heat and humidity made me the sweatiest I've been in my life. After that I went to a really cool lava tunnel (literally and figuratively, it was pretty cold down there)

Mazus sp.

Songsan - one of several UNESCO heritage sites on the island. Not much to look at from the top, but it's an interesting looking crater (I'm not going to find a better picture on the Internet for now)

Then I went to Manjanggul Cave (another UNESCO heritage site). This is a lava column formed from lava in a tube above this one breaking through and running down (those are colored lights, that's not actually the color of the column)

And then there were these...ILLUUMINATE ILLUUUMIIIIINAAAAATE 

(sorry)

Akebia quinata...it's really cool to see this plant in the wild after studying it.

Lygodium japonicum...vinaceous fern with weird stems and petioles

Jeju part 1

Pteris multifida (possibly)

Japanese White-eye (which I completely failed to see on Ulleungdo)

Horse sculptures

I'm not sure what kind of duck this is, it's not in my guide

Oriental Turtle Dove

Portulacca oleracea

Lemmaphyllum microphyllum

Banana flower

Dinosaurs! 

Parasaurolophus!

Common Kingfisher - these guys are so lovely!

Pectoral Sandpiper (I think)

August 16

Been traveling the past week, but now I'm finally in Jeju.

Paederia scandens in bloom

Crassocephalum crepidioides

Dunbaria villosa...don't even know how my brain even remembered this

August 8

Today was my last day in the field (at least on Ulleungdo). Tomorrow I will be packing up my stuff and Saturday I will be taking the ferry over to Pohang. 

Today I took the trail up to Seonginbong but stopped at the KBS Station junction and went back that way. 

Capsules of Paulownia tomentosa

Vaccaria pyramidata (or Vaccaria hispanica)

Codonopsis lanceolata of the cool flowers

Not a very great pic, but enough for me to know now that there are Barn Swallows on the island