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86 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Feb. 20, 1963 Wednesday
Place Barro Colorado Id.
Weather Cloudy, humid, then sunny.
This morning Tom & Jean Henry came for the day, & as the others had gone to Panama City, Doris & I were their hostesses -altho they'd been here before & knew it better than we did. A red-tailed monkey came near the porch & took a banana from Doris' hand, & I got several fine close-up photos of him. We had a short walk down by the stream where I collected last Sunday night, & I got some Selaginella & ferns as accessories for our Amazon group. Two Panamanians who are collecting for me brought in about 20 Phyllobates flotator, & some tadpoles which may be theirs, also an eel, fresh-water crabs, other frogs, beetles & crayfish, -the last I am very glad to get for Horton. The insects at the light were the most plentiful yet, & the moths are beautiful -blue, green, yellow or marble-colored, sometimes with fuzzy feet, or a heavy abdomen, & all sizes from 6 inches down to tiny ones 1/4 inchlong.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 87
Date Feb. 21, 1963 Thursday
Place Barro Colorado Id.
Weather Fair, warm, cloudy, slight shower
Another quiet day! Too quiet, because nothing so exhausts me as enforced rest! But we had a little walk to the right fork of Wheeler Trail, & I got a few plants. The 2 Panama collectors have brought in a lot of tiny arrow-poison frogs all of one kind, but the other 2 kinds have not been found yet. They also got some live fish which I hope to take home alive. There were some different moths at the light to-night, -one with ruby eyes had a beautiful marbled brown & tan pattern. Some big scarlet beetles appeared for the first time. In the jungle just before a rain this afternoon it got so dark that the fireflies began to light up. The moths at the lights are in such swirling clouds that they get behind my glasses, in my nose & ears, in my hair, & I've even had a wasp or two inside my dress. The seed ticks we get in the jungle are worse, as they are so hard to find.
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