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23.7.41. cont.  Baltray, Co. LH., cont.

Other Chalcids 1 from 1, & 1 from 2, =

Hemipteron =


26th July 1941. 

A very fine day with rising glass & intense sun in forenoon, dull after lunch, then again fine.  At 1.45 watched ☿ Bombus distinguendus in garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin, with good loads of pollen, assiduously working flower of isolated plant of Campanula (the upright very bell-flowered species), going over and over the plant & reluctant to leave it, although more plants grew at upper end of the garden and a few yards away.  Eventually after repeatedly visiting the same flower it flew to a white Snapdragon a couple of feet away, worked usual flower & then back to the Campanula & went all over this again.  Next it flew to rambler rose & worked usual flowers, rolling itself in the flowers, & went on to a yellow & white Snapdragon where it worked usual flowers before returning to the Campanula, whose flowers it proceeded to search 


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with increased vigor.  At this stage I had to leave & left Daisy to watch.  Later she reported that after going all over the Campanula it returned to the rose, which it abandoned in seeming disgust & flew straight across Ellis' garden towards McAuley's laburnum & disappeared.  Later in the day Daisy saw it in the garden again. 

While watching the ☿ distinguendus a very fresh ♂︎ Psithyrus campestris var. franciscanus flew about the garden & then across Westfield Road;  a ☿ lapidarius & a ♀︎ Megachile versicolor also seen at same time, the latter very busy at flower of sedum stoloniferum & also seen to visit those of Inula salicina & the Campanula.  Also some Halictus smeathmanellus ♂︎♂︎ seen.

27th July 1941. 
Very hot sun nearly all day. Garden.

Many Megachile seen, including several ♀︎ versicolor.

Vespa rufa  1 ☿ seen only. 
Halictus smeathmanellus  ♂︎♂︎
Bombus terrestris  several ♂︎♂︎. 
B. lapidarius ☿
B. agorum  1 only seen (☿), on lavender.
B. distinguendus  ☿ again seen by Daisy. 
Pimpla instigator ♂︎♂︎, several seen. 
Crabrovarius still common -

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