Viewing page 90 of 157

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

131.)

8/6/30.  The Murrough cont.
[[underlined]] Tenthredopsis nassata [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on grass.

About a dozen sp. of icks, including one in mash. [[insertion]] marsh [[/insertion]]

Bee Hawk moths abundant.  [[underlined]] M. aurinia [[/underlined]] just out in marsh S. of old C.G. Station.
[[underlined]] Stratiomys furcata [[/underlined]] one in marsh:  an early date (?).

[[line across page]]

8/6/30.  The following is a brief account of the burial of caterpillar by [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Sphex lutaria [[/underlined]] mentioned on p.130.  
When I arrived at the spot the Sphex had just dragged caterpillar into burrow in almost vertical bank along railway, but the burrow was too short & the cat's. tail stuck out.  Sphex was fearfully worried at this & finally dropped out the caterpillar & frantically dug out more sand & lengthened burrow.  At this stage I called Palmer who arrived just after cat. had been again dropped into burrow & I thought all was over.  But no!  Sphex was not satisfied yet & caterpillar was again pulled out & carried about for a time
[[left margin]] With the help of Palmer's notes afterwards written up & printed in EMM. June 1931. AWS. [[/margin]]

[[end page]]
[[start page]]

(132.

& finally placed in a tuft of vegetation about a foot above the burrow.  She then recommenced digging furiously, throwing out large quantities of sand & having evidently satisfied herself that the burrow was large enough did not at first seem to know what to do next but eventually remember the caterpillar & fetched it down & put it in the burrow & commenced to fill the latter from below though the bank also was loose & could easily have been pulled down over the hole.  When the [[insertion]] ^ loose [[/insertion]] sand immediately below the burrow had all been scraped in, she went further down the bank & kicked up more which she then filled in the hole with.  She then became more excited than ever & rushed all over the bank going quite a couple of feet away from the burrow but finally seized a small pebble & jammed it into the mouth of the hole.  Again she rushed about the bank & went quite far away & as it was evident she was looking for another pebble & scattered some near the burrow.  On one of her periodic returns she at last saw one of my pebbles & fairly threw herself on it with delight, grasped it in her mandibles, staggered downhill 7 or 8 inches & pitched it into the hole.  Only then did she pull down the bank from above & obliterated all trace of the burrow.

[[left margin]] After she had hidden one [[text obscured by folded page]] departed & we dug out the pebble which weighed 3 gm while a similar [[female symbol]] to her weighed 1 gm. [[/margin]]

[[line across page]]

12th June 1930, afternoon!  Dull, E. wind, after a warm morning & followed by a sunny afternoon.  
Liffey Head bog, Co. Wicklow, [[insertion]] ^ ca. 1700 ft alt. [[/insertion]] 1.0 till 4.30pm.
[[underlined]] Tenthredella balteata [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] in bog pool!
[[underlined]] Tenthredo arcuata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] in bog pool!  [[underlined]] Dolerus aeneus [[/underlined]] ? seen.
[[underlined]] Bombus jonellus & lucorum [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] ^ [[2 female symbols]] [[/insertion]] seen, probably at Vaccinium.
Pimpla maculator [[2 male symbols]] abundant, many in pools.
" [[Ditto for: Pimpla]] brevicornis small [[female symbol]] at Collana.  P. sp.? [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]]?
Glypta parvicaudata ? [[2 male symbols]] some in pools
[[underlined]] Zootrephus rufiventris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]].

NB.  Many insects on surface of pools.  ? some had been carried up by E. wind from Glencree.