Field notes, v4227
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Jan 18 We fixed specimens until 1:30 AM last night and thus got a late start this morning. We drove back to the same place we finished at yesterday and spent ~1.5 hr (11:15-12:45) opening bromeliads, before someone who guards the land told us we couldn't work there (although we asked for permission in the nearby houses). We opened ~48 bromeliads and got 49 B. cuchumatana; we kept only 1. I can't believe that we didn't find a Pseudobletia at this site. We then drove to a community forest that belongs to Alden los Canaguas, 2.6 km from the main road. The forest had some oak trees and enormous pines, with some ferns and lianas, and is much more humid than where we searched this morning. There were some bromeliads; most were small, although we opened 3 big ones. We searched from 14:15-15:10 and got 8 B. cuchumatana (kept 1); 6 were in bromeliads, 1 in a log and 1 under bark of a log. Also got 2 B. lindae, 1 under bark + 1 under a log. This forest is tiny (perhaps 2 ha) and we looked in almost all reachable bromeliads. We drove back through Macalajon looking for a site; and stopped at a point ~2.5 km from the main road in a village called Los Marias to look at some big trees we saw from the road. They appeared to be the last remnants of original forest left; everything else is secondary forest or grassland. There were no reachable bromeliads but I got a small B. cuchumatana under a piece of bark. Although the morning was sunny, the afternoon was cool and very foggy. We found no suitable habitat, in part because of the fog, and returned to Usupatan to spend the night.