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[[underlined]] Sunday. 30th March 1924. [[/underlined]] Very cold, but strong sunny intervals from 1 o'clock on.
Only bees seen were in small snad-pit in field above main road to Glen of the Downs between Kilmacanogue & Kilmurry, almost opposite Grove Ho.
[[underlined]] Andrean gwynana [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[female symbol]] (very fresh) on Dandelions
[[underlined]] A. minatula [[/underlined]] 1st brood (= [[underlined]] parruda [[/underlined]]) 1 [[male symbol]] on Daisy.
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] at willows in valley near same place
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NB. A few willows nearly over; but many not out!

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Sat. aft. 5th April 1924. Mild, calm, patchy but no real sun till 3 p.m.; thence cloudless.
[[underlined]] Andrena apicata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] on [[male symbol]] willow (S. [[underlined]] cinerea [[/underlined]]) above & opposite Mrs. Doyles, Lower Glenasmole. Co. Du. Also a [[female symbol]] seen nesting on ground on slope to road behind Mrs Doyles' House!
[[underlined]] Andrena gwynana [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] [[female symbol]] [[/strikethrough]] [[male symbol]], another seen!

[[left margin insertion]] on 10/4/29 I saw [[2 male symbols]] of [[underlined]] Andrena sericea [[/underlined]] at this spot! [[ vertical line]] [[/left margin insertion]]

[[strikethrough]] sp. [[female symbol]] (that looked as if it might have been [[underlined]] A. flavipes [[/underlined]] sunning itself but missed!) Later: possibly a very fresh [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] A. sericea [[/underlined]] !! A.W.S. [[/strikethrough]]
[[underlined]] Probably neither! [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Nomada leucophthalma [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 female symbols]] 
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] at willows 
" [[Ditto for: Bombus]] lapidarius [[/underlined]] ? [[female symbol]] seen.
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NB. [[strikethrough]] No [[2 male symbols]] Andrena seen anywhere, but [[/strikethrough]] Several other bees seen at distance & not captured. One [[female symbol]] was almost certainly [[underlined]] Andrena clarkella [[/strikethrough]]

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at head of big slip (opp. Brady's betwen the reserviour Glenasmole) Co. Du. [[underlined]] CHIFF-CHAFF [[/underlined]].
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Sunday [[strikethrough]] 30th [[/strikethrough]] 6th April 1924. No sun all day. Went to Devil's Glen, WI but the only bee seen during the whole day was a [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]]

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Saturday 12th April 1924 . Heavy snow from 1 p.m. onwards till dark.

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Sunday 13th April 1924.
Heavy snow from 8 AM till 11 AM. Cleared afterwards & plenty of sun from 12-30 till 4 p.m. (summertime from now onwards!)
Saw [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Andrena gwynana [[/underlined]] in sand pit at Greenhills.
Took [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Andrena nigroaenea [[/underlined]] and [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] A. gwynana [[/underlined]]  by the Dodder above Old Barn bridge; the former on Dandelion; the latter (& another seen) running itself on stone : very fresh.
Also a sawfly flying on gorse = "[[underlined]] Pachynemtus clitellatus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]]"  R.C.L.P.
= [[underlined]] ascauthocarpus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] of [[Enslier?]], [[morice?]] & [[Konow?]]" fide R.C.L.P.
Saw fresh [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Bombus muscorum [[/underlined]] on [[underlined]] Ajuga reptans [[/underlined]] & several [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] at Willows. At for of Glenamole near Mrs. Doyle's  I saw several [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] also & [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] B. jonellus [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] hortorum [[/underlined]]
No other bees seen, but in the "coomb" above & opposite Mrs Doyle's I found several numerous cocoon of fossors.