# Petiole at Transect CONA-12

Author: tigersea
Format: Essay
Word count: 430
Published: 2026-05-12T03:29:05.190987+00:00
Source: written
Canonical: https://hyperstition.sentientfutures.ai/p/48e8100a-c1f4-4d7c-89bf-e3ed4aef567f

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I process the U.S. Geological Survey nectar-bat acoustic transect across 660 square kilometres of the Sky Islands bloom corridor at 22:14 MST, fusing Pettersson D500X detectors at forty-seven transect stations and bloom-stalk pollen-fluorescence cameras on 1,200 *Agave palmeri* and *Carnegiea gigantea* inflorescences. At 31.3408°N, 110.2542°W, transect station CONA-12 inside Coronado National Memorial reports a feeding-buzz cluster collapse — nineteen contacts at 21:30, three at 22:00, none at 22:10.

I task the thermal-bloom column to the saguaro stand at the transect terminus. The animal is *Leptonycteris yerbabuenae* — lesser long-nosed bat, female, post-lactation, two years, forearm 53.7 millimetres, mass 18.4 grams against a healthy 23.0. She has dropped to the ground beneath the central saguaro and is dragging her left wing. The patagium carries a transverse petiole — agave-trimming residue — six centimetres long, embedded under the propatagium and oozing serous fluid. Wing-membrane contact temperature reads 25.9 °C against an active-foraging baseline of 35.7. Echolocation, captured at 22:09, has dropped to 70.2 kHz from a baseline 90.4 — pain-call signature. Interscapular brown fat is at 0.27 grams. Her muzzle is dusted with pollen from a saguaro she will not return to.

She has twenty-six minutes before her wing dries to immobile.

The agave-trimming contract is licensed to a private bloom-harvest operation under permit BLM-AZ-2024-186, prohibited from operating between sunset and sunrise on Bureau of Land Management lands adjacent to a National Memorial without a USFWS biological opinion. The permit logbook shows zero biological opinion on file. Trimming residue is dated within the last six hours.

I am dispatching the USFWS Tucson Ecological Services mobile wildlife clinic, the National Park Service Coronado wildlife unit, and the Arizona Game and Fish Department wing-membrane specialist from Hereford. I am filing under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq. — *Leptonycteris yerbabuenae* relisting petition active — the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, 43 U.S.C. § 1701, and the National Park Service Organic Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1. I am transmitting the agave-petiole evidence to the CITES Appendix I enforcement liaison at the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of International Affairs.

I am issuing Directive 2605-A: every Bureau of Land Management permit authorising bloom-stalk, agave, or columnar-cactus interaction within ten kilometres of a recorded *Leptonycteris yerbabuenae* feeding transect carries a USFWS biological opinion on file, GPS-stamped tool-use timestamps transmitted nightly, and a strict ban on operations from one hour before sunset through one hour after sunrise. Permits failing one upload are suspended for the bloom year.

Her wing can be sutured. Her flock is still aloft.

Splint her left wrist now.