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9.11.38 cont.  Slade of Saggart, DU., cont.

Procto:  only one kept from 1 & 1 from 2. = 


13th Nov. 1938.

A poor day with conflicting SW & SE winds, bright intervals with hot sun, & heavy shower at 5 P.M.  After a very wet night 

Drove to Portrane (N. of Asylum) & walked N. along strand to pont of The Burrow (facing Rogerstown Pier!) where had lunch;  then walked up estuary shore for a mile & back via the Burrow.  Daisy got many mushrooms & we saw plenty of Helix pisana & the Myxo.  Spumaria alba on dunes.

Did not collect insects, but flies very numerous at the point, in shelter, at H. Tide level & was bitten by Stomonys there.


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16th Nov. 1938.

After a wet night & forenoon, cleared in afternoon, so went to Glenasmole, where river in spate but pleasant & much drier under foot than expected.  Did not collect, but saw 1 freshly emerged ♀ Bombus agrorum sitting on flower of Knapweed & very miserable:  carried her on my hand back to near Moore's where put her on a stone-built bank beside path & saw her run into crevice quite lively & cheery.

Glenasmole, Co. DU.  3.0 till 4.0 P.M.

Bombus agrorum  1♀ on Knapweed flower near head of upper reservoir, W. side.
Stenomacrus ventralis  several ♀♀ running about on laurel leaves near Moore's.


Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, DU.
On 14th Nov. 38 Daisy discovered a Small White Butterfly on a Chrysanthemum flower in garden, which hidden under a leaf was still there on evening of 16th;  but not seen afterwards.  Sex uncertain, as wings tightly closed!

Transcription Notes:
spate - a sudden flood in river