Huntingdon Beach has six species, all of which make a living extracting insect larva from trees. Students guess that they actually do different things and must show how. The class day starts at 5.30am with a wake up call. Breakfast follows, and all students are in the field by 630am. Lunches are taken to the field or eaten in camp, depending on the work schedule.
Work continues until dark, when the class eats dinner.
After dinner, students work up the day's notes and the workday ends between 930 and 10pm. Between then and the wakeup call, students have free time. Prior to the field trip The class will meet once a week prior to the field trip. There are two purposes of these meetings. When the class returns to Columbia, the class will meet once a week to discuss the written presentations they must complete as the major tested component of the course.