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[[top right margin]] 7 [[circled]] [[top left margin]] RD. sage 1965 [[top margin]] [[underlined]] Xylocopa [[/underlined]] Playa Cocos, sea leve, Guanacaste, Costa Rica [[underlined]] 11 July 1965 [[/underlined]] about 10-15 feet apart from one another. When I arrived at 05:30 the flowers were still closed up and of course there were no bees The field is bordered on the SW side by a swampy area, on the NW by acacia forest, on the SE by a road and then a corn-field, and on the NW by houses and the road. The grass was about 2 ft high where it was growing undisturbed. The legume plant was a little shorter. 0555. The sun hit the first flowers in the SW corner of the field. 06:00 No bees, flowers still closed 06:30 No bees flowers still closed 07:15 No bees. Hummingbird (green) visiting flowers. 07:30. No bees. 08:00 No bees. 08:30 No bees. Many monarch-type butterflies at the flowers. 09:00 No bees. A strong wind has been blowing since 08:30 09:30 No bees [[strikethrough]] Stro [[ /strikethrough]] 010:00 No bees. Strongest gusts of wind so far. 010:30 No bees. Wind still blowing.