Field notes, v1308
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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