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12/4/25 cont. Easter Sunday!
Spent rest of day in Glencullen (below Killegar!) Co. Wicklow. Warm & sheltered but very little sun till late afternoon. 
[[underlined]] Andrena [[strikethrough]] fucata [[/strikethrough]] clarkella [[underline]] [[2 female symbols]] abundant & nesting in coomb (slip) on S. side of river.
" [[Ditto for: Andrena]] [[underlined]] Apicata [[/underlined]] 3 [[2 female symbols]] 2 sunning on slips on N. side of river, 1 at willows!
[[underlined]] Nomada leucophthalma [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] common at  [[underlined]] G. clarkella [[/underlined]] colony.
[[underlined]] Amblyteles quadripunctatories [[/underlined]] [[female sybmbol]] ? One specimen "searching" amongst dead bracken (M.D.S.) with tilia [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] red!
[[underlined]] Pezomachus [[/underlined]] (cf. [[underlined]] sylvicola [[/underlined]] Mosley!) [[female symbol]] beaten out of Gorse bark (in flower).
Tryphenimid [[female symbol]] also out of Gorse.
[[underlined]] Vespa norvegica [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] taken flying from [[male symbol]] willow!
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum, terrestris,  agrorum & hortorum [[/underlined]]

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13/4/25. St. Anne's Clontarf, Du. E. O'Mahony. 
[[underlined]] Dolerus nigratus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]], typical! [[checkmark]] R.C.L.P.
Later Sat. & Monday on duty in Museum!

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[[underlined]] Saturday 18th April 1925. [[/underlined]] A cold windy day with occasional bursts of sun & showers.
[[underline]] Kilkenny [[/underlined]]: [[insertion]] ^ in morning [[/insertion]] worked right bank of Nore below Kilkenny in morning but now nothing beyond [[underlined]] Myrmecia rufinodis, Lasius flavus & L. niger. Bombus lucorum & terrestris [[/underlined]] 
And one [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Andrena [[/underlined]] (probably [[underlined]] albicans [[/underlined]]) seen on [[underlined]] Prunus insititia [[/underlined]] !
In afternoon worked N. of Kilkenny along left ride of river, crossed at suspension bridge tonight & worked on for a couple of miles & then back by road. A [[male symbol]] [[underline]] Andrena nigroaenea [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Bombus lucorum & terrestris [[/underlined]] only bees seen but one specimen of a small Ichneumon beaten out of [[Whin?]] bush, with several Braconids ([[underlined]] Dacnusa [[/underlined]] ?)

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Sunday 19th April 1925. Very cold, very windy & unless all day: not even a [[underlined]] Bombus [[/underlined]] seen all day!  Worked down left bank of Nore for 5 miles below Kilkerry & home by railway & road. 

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Checked species names, anything I'm unsure of is in [[?]] -@siobhanleachman