Maritz, Dean 2010 Journal Jan. 24 ... We opened another 2 big formicidae next to a nice stretch of forest and one of them had 3 brown hybrids of the same species. Fed decided to walk along the road while the rest of us walked up another path where they had been cutting wood. Searched under some terrific boards and logs from 16:20-17:50; I got a B. cuxhavena and Carlos got a Brufa campbelli. We met Fed on the main road and he had found a Bradybittus silus in a roadbank near the junction. We drove back to Maribal and cl made tags and tubes for prepping while the others went to search along the stream where we put the pitfall traps. They found 2 Pleiothylo xil males that they released and spent 45 min searching. The day was really hot and sunny, and it got partly cloudy at night. Jan. 25 We awoke this morning to the sound of rain, which must have started sometime after midnight. It was quite heavy at times in the morning but got lighter as the day went on. After checking the traps (got nothing) and prepping specimens, we walked to Laguna Maribal. We checked a lot of logs and bark but got nothing on the way there; on the way back I found a Graeogaster chae under a log in the forest. Much of the land along the path has been cleared for corn fields. We drove to a site 2.1km S of San Jose Maribal where they had cut down big trees and made boards; habitat seemed great but we got only 2 B. hartweigi from 16:00-17:00. We went back, ate dinner and had a meeting with the local people about conserving the forest, but found out they don't actually own the land - belongs to