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[[Upper left]] RD Sage 1965   
[[Upper right]] 42 
[[Top margin]] Xylocopa sp.
[[underlined]] 2.5km E., 4km N.Chitaria, 600m, Cartago, Costa Rica [[/underlined]]
[[Left margin]] 14 August 
In a sealed off burrow in nest 45 there were two cells containing what I presume are wasps. The burrow had about 10 of these grass cocoons. There were 4-5 in each cell: 
They all appeared to be dead & dried up. Pickled the mess.
[[image- depiction of cocoons in cell]]
[[underlined]] Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica [[/underlined]]
[[left margin]] 15 August 
15:00 Checked out an abandoned barn and corral on the east side of town. There were many nest entrances in the crossbeams of the structure. They had all been painted with tar from what I could understand from a peon who guards the place. [[strikethrough]] On [[/strikethrough]] In some of them I saw the [[strikethrough]]mod [[/strikethrough]] mud chambers of wasps. In the corral we found four active nests, 1 in one timber & 3 in another. On the way out found another nest with active sawdust but the bee was not in. 

[[underlined]] 14km SW.Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica [[/underlined]]
[[left margin]] 15 Aug. 
15:30 Found Neoxylocopa visiting a mimosa like legume which was in flower on both sides of the road in the fields. The bees were scattered about 1 to ever 4 bushes. [[underlined]] Bombus [[/underlined]] was working the same flower.