Pearson - 1991 we have found seedling clumps in the past, are at least 10 young clumps of maybe 10 years of age. I dug up 3 young clumps of apparently different ages, maybe 5 to 15 years old; see photos. Sure looks like non-synchronous seeding. As a strategy to avoid shoot predators, why not, instead of mass suicide, synchronous cessation of shoot production for a few years? There are lots of yearling shoots in the general population, which suggests that this is not going to be the year of the big bloom. In a clump nearby there was a tall yearling culm with larva-eaten top at the 10-foot level. We did the census to El Abuelo and back: 2 flowering clumps on the westside of the road (one of them a big one in the first pullout place, and 5 blooming clumps on the east side =total 7. Two of the east side clumps consisted of culms that had bloomed last year but that still carried some green leaves and green blossoms. November 16.- Bariloche-Osorno. Descending from Paso Puyehue on the Chilean side, a few km below the Chilean border station and shortly after you start to see the first bamboo, there is a low bushy bamboo maybe 4 feet tall with branched culms, wide leaves, like a mini-quila. Nearby is a couleu-like one with small narrow leaves and many more buds than in our couleu. Plus also an ordinary-looking couleu. Then we came to quila, great mounds of it, and before long we noticed that there were blooms on it. Every plant for perhaps a half km was in bloom. When we got near Termas de Puyehue, there were stretches where the plants looked dead and had last-year's seed heads on them, like the specimen that Michael Christie brought us. Then some stretches with no blooms or stretches with most plants freshly blooming. No mice squashed on the road, no raptor concentrations, no parrots or pigeons. It is perfectly clear that this mass blooming is not synchronous. Perhaps a tenth or less of the clumps bloomed and died last year; half are blooming this year, and the rest have new culms and no blooms, maybe to bloom next year. If the yearling culms sticking out above the clump do not have blooms, then that culm is not blooming this year. We saw no seedlings coming up, but didn't really look very carefully for them. December 3.- Cerro Otto. No new shoots visible at clump A1 out in the open. Numerous new shoots at A2. Of 15 dead shoots at A2, 12 were clearly parasitized. There were 20 yearling shoots over 1 m, hence >34% of last year's production was killed by parasitization. December 9.- La Veranada. New shoots are up about 8 inches. Checked 8 of them and found two parasitized. At Lago Guillermo, checked 19 shoots without finding any parasitized ones. On many of them we only checked for a hole without dissecting the shoot, and may have missed some parasitized, because in a couple of shoots we found a larva and no visible hole to the outside.