Field notes, v1307
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Heene H. 1990 August 18 (continued) back along his body and froze. At 1023h he again jerked his head several times (≈2-3/sec) tongue flicked, touched her back w/ his chin and froze. At 1032h Tony Swell called to us from on the road that he'd caught an AOR Salvadora. At 1033h we left and the pair of C. molossus were still in copulo. ≈1130h we drove to Granite Gap and released the big ♂ C. molossus caught August 16j very hot and sunny and within minutes he disappeared into the Nectora nest. Went to Rodeo for gas and to buy things at the gallery. At 1545h, we found C. molossus ♂ #1 still copulating w/ the ♀ (she has 5 segments plus a button) and of course is much smaller). They are 3-4 m north of this mornings site, close to the rimrock. He is stretched under a low bush pointing E; she is stretched out in the shade of a crevice of an angled rock slab that opens uphill. Their tails are crossed just at the edge of the slab. They remained that way until we left at 1605h. At 1620h, we found C. molossus ♂ #3 at the base of an arroyo, in a loose coil facing a big Nectora nest (mainly sticks); tail visible, head out on coil and horizontal. The nest is up under a rocky ledge on the E side of the arroyo