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18. 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 19. 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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