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Journal
3 km NNE Los Cañas, Guanacaste Province Costa Rica 150 m
21 July
I set another line some 50 m. up to road and
to the south (east) - this line of 30 being in
2nd growth of dense + low (<2m) herbaceous growth.
Not knowing the tree species + being very busy setting
the traps + watching for snakes, I failed to
take note of the particular differences between
the N + S sides of the road. They are different.
In height (~ 75 vs 40 ft tall overstory, resp.)
slope (10-50% N (vs) 5-10% N resp.),
type of understory (thorny scrub - Rose (vs)
dense ground vines, resp.) and species composition
of the overstory. Later we joined Ed Hester +
comped at the river crossing between 3 +
8 km NNE Los Cañas. Setting traps today was
a bit uncomfortable in this humidity. Can't
remember when I sweated so much. Nighttime
temperatures were was comfortable ~65-70°F
and the wind blew strongly.
22 July
11am collected our traps - total captures of
17 Liomys salvini nothing else. My line of 30
east of the tiny yielded nothing. Subcounts were
Ed=3, Duke=7, Shid=7. After having breakfast
in Tilaran we set ourselves to stuffing Liomys on
the roadside