Pearson 1986 Bamboo (Cont.) Dec.26 Puerto Bleet. Clump D1 on our trafficking grid has numerously long branchlets (Longigirama?) up to 30 inches long and with as many as 34 leaves + leaf scars. The leaves seem to be in batches of 3 or 4. A plant blowing on the edge of the meadow showed a mini-leaf at the base of each flower stalk, even on old leaf branches. See photo. Dec.27 A big new shoot in D1 grew from 19"8 cm yesterday at 2 p.m. to 199 at 10 a.m. today, worse. The measurement a bit sloppy. A careful road count yesterday from the Chicken end of the meadow to El Abuelo, about 2 km, showed 8 clumps in bloom on the NW side of the road and 8 on the SE = total 16. Seven of the eight on the SE side were either very small culms or only one or a few culms in bloom. Photographed the dead culm at the "Post Office" - no change, lots of raspberry plants; and yesterday photographed 2 dead clumps in the meadow. A random sample of parasitized shoots along a short stretch of the trail to San Cantarino, several of the shoots 3 to 5 feet tall, showed: 1st 10 shoots - 3 parasitized (tunneling larvae) noted 2nd 10 " - 1 " " 3rd 10 " - 5 " " par 1 Shoots - 2 samples of this year's shoots showed Parasitized not Parasitized Saw all 3 Rhinocryptes 10 7 in the bamboo, 2 (12) 9 (16)