Field notes, v4225
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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