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Hree, 16.
1992
August 9 (continued) 1280 + 110 mm, 1.81 kg, 12 segments incomplete and parallel; 1270 + 111 mm, 2.11 kg, 6 segments incomplete and parallel. We all went to SWRS for dinner, and I picked up a regurgitated stomach contents of a Thamnoptis cyltopsia from Tom Matheis.
August 10 While the Fogdens did photos, Dave and I worked at 0857h w/ our blacktails. We released C. molossus ♀ 15 at her capture site. At 0842h we found C. molossus ♂ #9 partly stretched and fairly fast in sun, disappearing under grass near the bottom of a ravine ~ 50 m N of Silver Creek and 150 m S of the road. At 0942h we found the signals of C. molossus ♂ 8 and ♀ 14 in the same hole, and we saw ~ 1/2 of #8's body extending from the hole in a hairpin - bend and fairly barely visible back in hole.
At 1049h Dave spotted C. molossus ♂ 3 coiled in a rock retaining wall on the N side of Silver Creek just below the road at the "One Jane Bridge" sign. At 1109h we spotted C. molossus ♀ #12 in the same place - in shade, big food bulge still evident, and dirt on her face. At 1136 h, after a wild goose chase due to confusing signals from the rocky point, we found C. molossus ♂ 13 in shade, tucked up under a sotol plant. He is ~ 40m W. of Pole 1, and ~ 50m NW of yesterday, in a resting coil. At 1156h we found S. molossus ♀ 15 under a bush in shade