Pearson - 1993 21 Bamboo species account 1 November.- Llaio Llaio. Clump B2 at the trail crossroads looks old and decrepid, the few yearling culms are skinny, there are many more dead shhots than yearlings, Only one new shoot seen. It was up only an inch or two, but it is still early in the season. There are many green culms of small diameter, truncated at between 8 and 20 inches above ground.. Clump B1, the one squashed by a fallen limb >1<2 years ago, is still chaotic, but a lot of tall fat yearlings tower above the wreckage. One big old marked culm was bent into a complete arc, the top buried in the tangle, yet it appeared to be alive and healthy. 2 November.- Cerro Otto. The upper bamboo clump (A2) had 30 dead shoots and 43 yearling culms. Tagged them, but did not measure them. Several of the yearlings had dead tops but >1 m tall. The lower clump (A1), which has been decrepid for years, had 15 yearling culms and 0 dead shoots. The moths don't find it out here in the open? 5 November- Aguas Calientes. See journal. 7 November- La Veranada. The two bamboo clumps are undisturbed. E3 had 88 dead shoots (removed them), 53 yearlings (tagged them, and 52 2-yr-olds (marked them 91-92 with marking pen). E2 had 10 dead shoots (removed them), 14 yearlings (marked them '92-'93 with marking pen), and 13 2-yr-olds (marked them '91-'92 with marking pen). 16-November- Llaio Llaio. Marked yearlings ('92-'93) and 2- yr-olds ('91-'92) at our study clump at the crossroads. Removed 42 dead shoots, almost all of them parasitized. Marked 5 surviving yearlings, rather skinny, and marked 23 2-yr-olds. There were a number of new shoots coming up, the tallest about 6 inches. What poor survival last summer: 5 culms out of 47 (unless some of the 47 were still left over from 2 years ago) 16 December- Puerto Blest. At our marked clump, one tall culm that was completely dead at the top had some new green flowers and some old dried flowers coming out of the same node. Removed 3 old dead shoots, two of them almost 1 m tall and hard at the base. There were 6 new shoots, 4 yearlings of the '92-'93 cohort, and 3 of the '91-'92 cohort. Marked them. The other marked clump had 0 dead shoots, 3 new shoots, 4 yearlings of the '92-'93 cohort, and 7 of