Viewing page 4 of 132
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
4. 22 Feb 1934. A glorious day, after a few dull ones. M.D.S saw Tortoiseshell Butterfly in garden sunning itself & flying about 2:30 P.M. Almond tree in Kenilworth Square opened first flowers. [[line across page]] 25th Feb 1934. A clear cold day, with rising glass, after a slight depression. Wind (NW) very keen, but almost all sunny. No willows seen out: one nearly out at bridge! Drove to Colbinstown station & collected in marsh at S.W. corner of the [[insertion]] ^ railway [[/insertion]] bridge, which I take as in [[underlined]] Co. WI [[/underlined]]. most insects taken by pulling up dead grass, sedge, & in marsh & shaking on sheet; but a few taken by sweeping along foot of [[strikethrough]] railway [[/strikethrough]] road embankment, including a mymarid, 3 Proctos. (taken in one sweep) & a [[male symbol] [[underlined]] Aphidius [[/underlined]] & a [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Hemiteles [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Hemiteles [[/underlined]] 1 small [[female symbol]] swept [[underlined]] Pezomachus [[/underlined]] - 3 [[2 female symbols]] 3 spp., shaken. [[underlined]] Blacus ruficornis [[/underlined]] ? 2 [[2 female symbols]] by shaking. [[underlined]] B. maculipes [[/underlined]]? 1 [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] Aphidius [[/underlined]] 4 [[2 male symbols]]. [[left margin note]] In shakings the beetle [[underlined]] Psammoechus bipunctatus [[/underlined]] F was common, only recently added to Irish List by Bullock from Limerick. [[/left margin note]] [[underlined]] Proctos. [[/underlined]] 3 of one sp. taken by sweeping embankment of road. 1 smaller, with clubbed antennae. Chalcid 1 with blotched wings. [25.2.34. CW Allen saw four [[2 male symbols]] [[underlined]] Bombus terrestris [[/underline]] at flowers of [[underlined]] Petasites fragrans [[/underlined]] at Knockmaroon, Co DU, this morning!] [[end page]] [[start page]] 5. 28th February 1934. A dry day with keen N.W. wind Little sun in afternoon. Drove to Enniskerry, Co. WI., & walked a mile up glen to open ground & bee cliff. [[underlined]] Pezomachus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Stenomacrum ventralis [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] [[wavy vertical line indicating side note applying to above two species]] Shaken out of dead leaves near the iron gate. [[/side note]] One or two catkins out on big willow which grows on face of sand cliff, but no bees seen. [[line across page]] 28 Feb. 1934. First flower on [[underlined]] Chionodoxa [[/underlined]] in front garden 3rd March '34. A whitish-purple [[underlined]] Crocus [[/underlined]] out in front garden [[birch?]] path. Daffodil in back garden out on 6th March. [[line across page]] 4th March 1934 . Showery, chilly & strong w. wind. Drove with George & C.W. Allen through Phoenix PK. & via Knockmaroon & Lucan to Leixlip. Stopped at several sandpits but saw nothing out, as heavy shower came in just as we reached Knockmaroon. [[line across page]] 7th March 1934. A cold day, hot sun, but showers from W. in afternoon. Drove to Henry Bridge, over Grand Canal, W. of Lyons House, Co. KD. & walk along W. side of canal for a mile and & back. Quite nice ground for sweeping, several nice willows (not out) & some bee banks. Beat one ich. out of gorse, but hot sun caused it to fly away: it may have been a small [[underlined]] Pimpla maculata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]], but I could not be sure.
Transcription Notes:
Reviewed. Solved or confirmed a few [[?]], edited markup for consistency with previous 5 Stelfox hymenoptera projects. Checked location spellings and genus & species spellings.
Psammoechus bipunctatus = Stelfox may mean Psammoecus bipunctatus? -@siobhanleachman
