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9.

ARKLOW SPRING TRIP 1929.
(after the boys recovered from chicken-pox!)

30th April 1929. Drove to Arklow.
Ballyhenry quarry, WI. 1 1.30 pm.
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] B. terrestris [[/underlined]] (1) [[2 female symbols]]. [[underlined]] Andrena nigroaenea [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] albicans [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]]. [[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] H. calceatus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen. [[underlined]] Sphecodes divisus [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] 1 [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Nomada marshamella [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]].
No sawflies or icks. seen. Sunny but cold wind.

March N. of Red Cross, WI. 2 pm. Sunny
[[underlined]] Dolerus oblongus [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. 1 [[strikethrough]] female symbol [[/strikethrough]] [[male symbol]]. (AWS. [[checkmark]] Oct. 1929.)

Well's Glen, Ferrybank, WI. 3 till 4.30 pm.
Some sun but mostly cloudy & cold wind (NE).
One [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Contania [[/underlined]] sp. swept off willows: see R.C.L.P's notes of 5/2/30!
3 or 4 icks taken in sheltered spot on brambles &c.

Saw Swifts, & heard Corncrakes & [[strikethrough]] White throat [[/strikethrough]] Sedge Warbler 
Speckled Wood in glen, very torn wings!

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10.

1st. May 1929. A fine day along coast with cold east wind; but all cloudy west of Carnew.
Drove to Kilcarry Bridge, CW via Gorey & Carnew & home.
Rt. bank of Slaney & glen [[insertion]] of Glasha R. [[/insertion]] below Kilcarry Br., CW. 12 till 2 pm. Practically no sun & very cold.
[[underlined]] Lasius [[/underlined]] flavus ? nest in marsh : a large mound!
[[underlined]] L. fuliginosus [[/underlined]] nest going strong in old stump as before.
[[underlined]] Myrmica scabrinodis [[/underlined]] nest under stone.
[[underlined]] Bombus agrorum [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen.
[[underlined]] Andrena albicans [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & one fresh [[female symbol]] on [[female symbol]] willow.
[[underlined]] A. rosae [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on [[female symbol]] willow, quite fresh!
[[underlined]] A. nigroaenea [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] abundant on dandelions about bridge during only blink of sun.
[[underlined]] Dolerus haematodes [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. [[/insertion]] [[male symbol]] clinging to willow
One small ick swept off rushes &c. in marsh.
[[insertion]] Cuckoopint & Common Bugle in flower [[/insertion]]

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1.5.29 cont.
Marsh by stream a couple of miles West of Knockbrandon, WX (between Gorey & Carnew.)  2.30 PM.  Sunny.
[[underlined]] Andrena albicans [[/underlined]] hundreds of [[2 male symbols]]. [[underlined]] Nomada bifida [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]]
[[strikethrough]] Pteronidea [[strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Amauronematus [[/underlined]] 2 spp. [[2 male symbols]]: see RCLP's notes dated 5.2.30. these labelled "[[underlined]] dartmoorensis [[/underlined]]?" & "[[underlined]] mundus [[/underlined]] ?" AWS.
2 [[2 male symbols]] flying to willows

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[[left margin]] Both seen but not named by Benson in 1934. [[/margin]] 

[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen.

[[right margin]] Cuckoo heard! & Sedge Warbler seen! [[/margin]]

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