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High in the Andean mountains of Ecuador, Tony, a large, male spectacled bear, shelters from the midday heat beneath the shade of a century-old fig tree draped in Spanish moss.

Spanish moss hangs low from the trees, and we have to hold it back like curtains.

For example, in a model of the Sun’s surface, we use Spanish moss to create the dynamic texture of the Sun.

Spanish moss hangs from branches of black cypress trees like funeral veils.

Despite a massive daily cleanup operation that leaves the post-parade landscape remarkably clean, uncaught beads dangle from tree limbs like Spanish moss and get ground into the mud under the feet of passers-by.