Field notes, v4226
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Lagos de Montebello, Chiapas, Mexico (cont.) March 22 ... juveniles also have extensive red coloration. The juveniles could be B. Rufescens, as several of them have coloration typical of that species. All appear to have triangular toes and broad feet. The forest here has some dry elements, including large spiky agave-type plants, and is not like other bartwege habitat I've seen. We went to search at Laguna de Montebello, but it was overrun by vacationing Mexicans and the forest didn't look good; so we only spent about half an hour opening bromeliads and turning logs. We drove back and parked 1.7 Km from the park entrance at the intersection of the highway and a dirt road. We walked up the road through a pine forest with some liquidambar and opened bromeliads from 14:00-15:45. I got 2 more juvenile Batelodossa. Finally, we went into the park itself and spent ~25 min opening bromeliads, but good habitat was sparse and we found nothing more. We drove back to Comitán and spent the night there. Laguna Chamula microwave tower, between Comitán and San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico March 23 We drove from Comitán back to Laguna Chamula and searched from 11:15-13:00. We walked past the towers and across a small cleared area to a patch of decent oak forest and opened many bromeliads (perhaps 100 or more) but found nothing. Habitat destruction for charcoal continues unabated here, and the forest is rather open. I think it's possible that habitat alteration may have made it