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12th June till 13th July 1936: see next volume!
On 12th June we went to Belmullet, Co. Mayo W. by rail & bus & on 22nd June by bus to Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim, 2 miles SW. of Bundoran. We returned to Dublin on 13th July. 
All records for this period will be found in the next volume of my diary.
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14th July 1936. Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., DU.
Some hot sun, but also heavy showers. Spent day feeding snails & hardly had time to look for insects, but the following were seen in back garden.
[[underlined]] Bombus distinguendus [[/underlined]] 1 large [[virgin female symbol]] on [[underlined]] Campanula [[/underlined]] (tall, white, annual, species!) & flew to Foxglove, where caught, taken into house & inspected, as I at first thought it was a [[male symbol]]; then released & not seen again.
[[underlined]] B. lucorum, agrorum & lapidarius [[/underlined]], numerous [[2 virgin female symbols]]
[ [[underlined]] B. jonellus [[/underlined]] ? [[male symbol]] seen [or possibly a [[virgin female symbol]] of [[underlined]] hortorum [[/underlined]] ] on [[underlined]] Hieracium [[/underlined]].
[[underlined]] Megachile [[/underlined]] spp. No less than seven [[2 male symbols]] found occupying holes in clothes line post: some [[underlined]] centuncularis [[/underlined]], some [[underlined]] willughbiella [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] M. willughbiella [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] seen: one of latter very small & possibly [[underlined]] M. versicolor [[/underlined]].
[[underlined]] M. centuncularis [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] [[checkmark]] & several [[2 female symbols]]: one of latter repeatedly seen at flowers of [[underlined]] Geranium pyrenaicum [[/underlined]].

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14.7.36 cont. Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., DU. cont.
[[underlined]] Crabro varius [[/underlined]] : only a few to be seen; evidently nearly over.
[[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] 1 small (? [[male symbol]]) seen.
[[underlined]] Bassus laetatorius [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] in motor house.

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14.7.36. Found an ick. - [[underlined]] Mesoleius [[/underlined]]
in pot in motor house in which 2 purple larvae of sawflies, found on [[underlined]] Epilobium montanum [[/underlined]] in Slade of Saggart, Co. DU., on 25th Sept. 1935: evidently bred from one of these as no other sawfly larvae were in pot last year! A dead [[underlined]] Athalia [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] lineolata [[female symbol]] [[/insertion]] subsequently found in pot.
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[[insertion]] 16th July 1936 [[arrow]] Also a fine evening [[/insertion]] 19th July 1936. [[vertical line]] A fine day, with strong NW. wind, some skiffs of rain, a good deal of sun, warm; after several days of dreadful showers, with thunder.
Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin.
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] (2) seen; [[2 virgin female symbols]]. [[underlined]] B. lapidarius & agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]]
[[underlined]] Psithyrus barbutellus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] taken, very fresh, on 19th.
[[underlined]] Andrena gwynana [[/underlined]] 1 fresh [[female symbol]], 2nd brood, sunning itself.
[[underlined]] Halictus leucopus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on [[underlined]] Geranium pyrenaicum [[/underlined]].
[[underlined]] Crabro varius [[/underlined]] common. [[underlined]] Pemphredon lugubris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] seen.
[[underlined]] Psenulus pallipes [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on post on 19th. [[underlined]] Spilomena troglodytes [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on currant bush.
[[arrow pointing to "Halictus leucopus", above]] [[underlined]] Hylaeus communis [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] on post on 19th.
[[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] at least 4 seen on post at one time.
[[underlined]] Megachile willughbiella [[insertion]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]]. [[/insertion]] & centuncularis [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] 1 [[fulvus?]]-haired [[female symbol]] on 16th. [[2 male symbols]] only seen. [[/insertion]] : both common.