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Havits, Joan
2008
Journal
Jan. 13 CURLA Research station, La Ceiba, Apto., Atlantida, Honduras (ent.) Bromeliads growing on a fencepost. Lots of the bromeliads had angry ants and wasps, so he couldn't open many of them. We searched for about 2 hours (12:00-14:00) and also found an armadillo cerrocha in a bromeliad. Wanted to find a B. rufescens but no luck. We then spent the rest of the day driving to Santa Rosa de Copán.
Jan. 14 Belén Hauch and Corio Yzavante, Apto., Ocopeguo, Honduras We drove from Santa Rosa de Copán to Cucuyagua on CA4 and then turned south towards Belén Hauchos. We drove past Corquin and stopped in the first area we saw with bromeliads. It was a small remnant of [illegible] forest, part of which had the understory cleared, 7.3 km N (by road) of Belén Hauchos. We opened some great bromeliads from 10:00-11:45 (maybe 30 bromeliads) and Ted quickly got a small B. smithi, but then we got nothing else. We drove to Belén Hauchos and then returned to near the high point on the road, 6.2 km N of town, where there were many oak trees with tops of great bromeliads; although the forest was highly disturbed. We searched in bromeliads for ~25 min and Ted got an adult Bromelichyla bromeliacia. We then went back to the highway and drove W to Lucerna, where we turned N on a good road. We drove to La Reserva Escapa, which seemed heavily deforested; and took a road along the N side of the reserve. There was no forest here along the road but I could see some higher up on the hill. We searched in vain.