Field notes, v552
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Journal 16 mi E, 0.2 mi's Mono City, (Jct 395 + 167), Mono Co., Calif 6475ft 22 May cont'd of this locality. Luckily I remembered his directions, simple as they were. An earth road cuts south from 167 almost exactly 10 mi E of the 395 + 167 Jct. This road heads straight for Mono Lake, which lies about 2 mi (or so) south of 167 at this point. The road cuts through a number of dunes, all vegetated by Chrysanthemum (I think) and Artemesia. Junipers spill over from the hills to the north. The dunes are intermittent, separated by dense flats of Artemesin (i.e mul-caked soil) and small rifts of shallow to moderately deep sand. The dunes themselves, rising only 10-30 ft above the rifts are quite fine - sparse vegetation. Fine sand. Mucho sign of Lagus californicus and a Sylvilegus. I set ~~90 Shawmans last night w/ little expectation of finding pregnant Microdiplopops pallidus. Yet the night was surprisingly warm (it's now 60°F; last night it dropped to round 50°F). Captures were as follows: B. maniculatus 4 Etonicus meridiani 1 Phyo. ordei 1♂ 2♀ (one lost, the other peak extras) M. pallidus 2♂ 3♀ → 2♀, 1♂ catalogued Dipo paramenter 1♂ 14 Not particularly good trap success, but 2/3 of yielded embryo sets (cf 12,20). No f paras caught. 3 trap lines moved today because of poor success and 90 more traps were set out