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[[top left margin]] RD Sage 1965
[[top right margin]] 49 [[circled]]

Xylocopa sp

[[underlined]]Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica[[/underlined]] 
[[left margin]]22 August 
Talked with the owner of the place. He said the paint they use is called [[Alkytron?]]. It covers the wings of the bees when they leave & they fall to the ground where they stomp on them. 

[[underlined]]5.5km SE Desamparados, 1260m, San Jose, Costa Rica[[/underlined]]
[[left margin]]25 August 
Nest# 21. In a fallen tree in open meadow. Took 1 picture of nest. Opening of nest is at 65 degrees. Height from ground is 3ft. Another 3ft of branch goes up from there. Burrow slopes upwards in branch. (Schoenherria)8 [[symbol for males]]  3 [[symbol for females]].
Pickled 1 [[symbol for female]] & 1 [[symbol for male]] which were damaged in opening the nest. There [[strikethrough]]were[[/strikethrough]] was a light infestation of mites on 4 of the [[ symbols for  males]]. Absolutely none on the 2 [[symbol for females]]. The mites were at the base of the right wing on one & in between the abdomen and thorax on the others. The diameter at nest entrance is 70mm. 
Nests 74 & 75 were located in a dead tree (SJA Bot#76) The tree was one of three of the same species -- all dead at the very head of the lower meadow. The slope it was on faced NE. The tree itself stood 15-18 ft high. The branch [[strikethrough]]on[[/strikethrough]] which the nests were located was a side branch from the main trunk. The woodpeckers had attacked the tree and hollowed out a cavity with an opening 55x95mm. From the lower lip of the entrance the cavity is 80mm deep