. A year of Costa Rican natural history. Bromeliads on a Branch of Poro, Cartago. Ants. I. Queen, 2. Two Workers of Apterostigma calverti. BananaRiver region. x6. 3. Odontomachus hastatus, Juan Vinas, xj. To face p. 233 JUAN VINAS—TENANTS OF BROMELIADS 233 found and there was so much still to be examined that Ileft the plants where they had fallen, and resumed the cut-ting oif of the leaves the following morning. When all thelarger ones had been removed I carried the three stocks,still so firmly united that I was unable to separate them andweighing some fifteen pounds, to the spring farther do
. A year of Costa Rican natural history. Bromeliads on a Branch of Poro, Cartago. Ants. I. Queen, 2. Two Workers of Apterostigma calverti. BananaRiver region. x6. 3. Odontomachus hastatus, Juan Vinas, xj. To face p. 233 JUAN VINAS—TENANTS OF BROMELIADS 233 found and there was so much still to be examined that Ileft the plants where they had fallen, and resumed the cut-ting oif of the leaves the following morning. When all thelarger ones had been removed I carried the three stocks,still so firmly united that I was unable to separate them andweighing some fifteen pounds, to the spring farther downthe canon side so that I could wash out the mud and makemore careful search. At noon—after three hours con-stant work—I finished the examination and had found twomore dragonfly larvae. These larvae were kept in bottleswith a few bits of bromeliad leaves added to make the sur-roundings homelike. All reached Cartago alive, but the onefound October 3 died when attempting to moult on Octo-ber 7; one of the others died from some unkn
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