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Rovito, Dean
2007
Journal
May 5
La Union, Zacapa, Depto. Zacapa, Guatemala
We spent the morning tanning and preserving all the animals
we collected over the last 2 days. We then drove back to
the cloud forest at La Union to search for the elusive
Guyastriton morpini. We returned to the same spot where
we finished last time, since the forest was good and
many bromeliads remained. We worked there cutting down
bromeliads from 15:00 - 17:20. Carlos found 2 B. emanti and
Jed got 1 more. Carlos also found a B. dulcensis, the first
I have seen in a bromeliad. The forest was very dry and
bromeliads were the only wet spots anywhere. We drove over
the hill track towards La Union, but the forest was
extremely dense with few bromeliads, and we got nothing. There
are lots of great logs in this forest for work in the wet
season. Finally, we drove back over the hill to near where
we started (away from La Union) and opened about 6 big
bromeliads right along the road; I had a B. emanti.
It was too dark to do more work, so we drove back
to the hotel. On total, we searched from 15:00 - 18:30.
The weather was somewhat hot and cloudy.
May 6
Laguna Chpala, Volcan Chpala, Depto. Chiquimula/Quintapa, Guatemala
We set out early to search in the cloud forest atop Volcan
Chpala. We drove south of Chiquimula and took a dirt
road to the town of Chpala - it turned out that there is
now a fast, paved road from Chiquimula to Chpala that