Swat's Blast The grid, picked up at 8-10 AM, as follows: 1B aka longi #305 1M " " #58Y 3H " " #58Y 4F Precomp #595q 4E aka longi #593 6A aka longi & open #592 8A " " f #596 7G precomp 8 #52 8H " " 8 #594 8B aka longi #591 We saved Precomp #595q for photoset and will release best tomorrow. #52 also saved and sent to Oldrog via Vargues. Day mostly cloudy & scattered drizzle. Occasional weak sun, but likely as not drizzling at the same time. a passing Daniel Defindoforest says the large bamboo grub is surely a Coleopteran and its name in German is Maicifer = myc-beetle and that it is very common in European forests. Fitzroya At 6 put about 30 museum specks in the Kolgebebean swamp on the road to Pogo Tivar, on the west side of the road, almost to El Alvalo. Ground is Sphagnum, lots of standing water, sedges, a few bamboo (small). The cypresses are stunted. No dry refugia to be seen. afternoon mostly continued rain, but drizzle again in evening. Nov. 21 Morning clear! Tracey frost on roof. bamboo: along the road to Pogo Tivar I found at least one place where small bamboo was flowering. The bigger "flowering" clumps are of 3 kinds: (1) old dark canes, even with fungi growing out of them, and very few leaf ribs or flowering heads remaining, (2) older canes, with lots of ribs & flowering heads; sometimes