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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