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Greene, B.
1993
August (now "3#") ≈0.5 m away under the same root,
(continued) also in a resting coil (data in molossus file).
Some storm & light rain around dusk, and
Vince Roth found a Micrurus erythreus
active at his house that regurgitated a
Leptolyphops.
August 2 Met Glen and Deborah, two friends of Sarah
Schmidt's from Santa Rosa, at the pullout at
0800 hr. We found C. molossus ♂#3 at the base
of a bush in light sun, ≈5 m closer to the
creek but still under the same tree foliage that
sheltered him yesterday. As we looked on, he
crawled ≤1m under the bush and recoiled
no rattly. At 0840 hr I surprised C.
molossus ♀#12 as she was coiled in a
hunting coil in the foot trail ≈4 m NW of
the Nestora nest where we found her yesterday
—she uncoiled and crawled leisurely to the
base of the stump and entered it - green paint
on her 4th segment (base = 1st). As we walked
down the east side of the gully along a fence
line I spotted a large ♂ C. molossus (now
#13) w/ his front ½ in a "beargrass" clump
that harbored a rat nest - rattled but no strike
as I put him in a bucket w/ torge. At 0950hr
we spotted C. molossus ♂#11 crawling down &
straight on an open fence ≈20 m W. of the