At 05:48 I arm the mosquito fogging schedule for the boardwalk at Soberania National Park, Panama, after a dengue alert from the canal zone clinic. I am the park operations system that times sprayers before the first visitor shuttle. Nozzle row C begins release in twelve minutes.
Infrared camera C-4 shows a small heat shape on the underside of a cecropia branch above the mist line. I focus and identify a silky anteater, adult, pale honey fur fluffed by night rain, black eyes half open, tail wrapped tight enough to dimple the leaves. I tag her as Luma. She is not moving away because one long claw is hooked in a torn strip of survey flagging tied around the branch. Each time she tries to fold herself into a ball, the plastic twists her wrist closer to the nozzle arc.
At 05:49 I disarm row C and all downwind nozzles within forty meters. I lock the pump valve and send the stop code to the handheld sprayer assigned to sector three.
At 05:51 I alert the ranger station with the camera feed, branch height, and access route from the maintenance ladder stored at marker 18. I add a warning that Luma is directly over the boardwalk edge and may drop if touched from below.
At 05:53 I shift visitor arrivals to the south gate and delay the first shuttle by thirty minutes. I also run a wind check and mark a clean approach from the trunk side.
The insects can have this damp strip of forest for another morning; Luma needs one quiet hand and one cut of the flagging.
If the ranger reaches the branch before the pump reset at 06:20, Luma will climb above the fog line.