Pearson - 1998 4 calcium for her eggs? There were numerous fire places with ashes nearby. Back to Bariloche at 1:30pm. Sunny and warm. High for the day was 81°. October 31- Bariloche. Morning clear, warm, no wind. In afternoon went up Cerro Otto to our two bamboo clumps. The meadow was green and full of dandeliond in bloom. Numerous tuco diggings but no earth cores and no snow at all. One place between our two bamboos had a tuco digging that must have contained 20 to 30 buckets of earth. Various places along the road that usually have standing water were dry. The bamboo that had been cut to make ski runs has come back and makes it difficult to descend from the road to our clumps. The lengas are well leafed out, the white pines have grown rapidly and are volunteering in several places. The pilo- pilo is in bloom and more abundant than before. The dead bamboo culms that had been cut and were lying on the ground 15 years ago are still there. Numerous yearling culms at both clumps, but there is a difference in that most of the yearlings at the forest clump had dead tops, surely parasitized, and there were lots of dead shoots almost all of which were parasitized, whereas at the clump out in the open, only a few of the yearling culms had dead tops and there were almost no dead shoots. In past years there have been very few dead shoots at that clump. Presumably the parasitic moths don't get out there on the open slope. The canes are tightly packed at both clumps. The clump out in the open as well as its neighbors have yellowish leaves, butt it keeps on producing new culms. It still has at least two live culms marked as yearling in 1984. Ditto the clump in the forest. The afternoon was sunny, warm, scattered clouds, no wind, high 82°. This is remarkably warm dry weather for October. November 1- Bariloche. Morning sunny, warm. Overnight low 52°. Went up to the Univeristy to collect calendulas. Warm, no wind, high 79°. Then to dinner with Patricia and Jorge Vallerini. Jorge says the lake is as low now as it usually is at the end of the summer in March; that's how dry the weather has been. And lambs are dying out on the steppe because the mothers cant find enough food. November 2- overnight low 52°, daytime high 82°. Got my permit from Parques. The girl who was studying nest predation last year (from San Jose and UC Santa Cruz) is a competent artist, novia of the ant biologist at Ecotono; her name is Anya Elisabet Iles. At 6 p.m put out traps along Arturo Tarak's road (ConCon) close to where it leaves the paved road. This is 1 km west of where the paved road crosses the railroad track, about 2km nearer town from where Anita and I trapped last year, and maybe 4 km closer to town than the Aeroclub. The trapping area is a big field (for sale) lightly grazed by horses, but