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25th March 1942. 

After a bright morning, a dull day, with NE-E breeze till 6 P.M., then very cold & bright sun with strong E. wind, following a day of intense hot sun - as hot as mid May! - with N.W wind & falling glass;  glass steady today, however, & rather recovering, perhaps.

First red Saxifrage flowers & 1st Aubretia (maun) out in front garden & 1st blossom open on Forsythia in Miss Allen's garden.

Went by 2.10 bus to Bohernabreena & walked to upper reservoir in Glenasmole & home by 5.15 bus.  Saw a few Bombus (probably all lucorum), 1♀︎ Andrena clarkella (making burrow) by roadway, & took one Plectiscid ick = Helictes ? ♀︎, which Daisy spotted on laurel just below Moore's house, labelled 5/4/42!.  Insects very scarce & no hymenoptera taken by sweeping.  Chiff-chaffs (5 or 6) heard in various places, but no more Sand Martins seen.


26th March 1942.

Cold & hazy, but considerable sun & warm in shelter of garden in forenoon, when set 2 rows of potatoes in Daisy's patch.  In afternoon we rode to Clondalkin & up canal 1/2 a mile to my collecting ground of 1941, where tried sweeping, but E. wind very strong & perishing & sun now hidden by fog, so nothing in way of hymenoptera


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seen or swept.  One weevil ( ) taken home & given to O'Mahony.  Brought home cuttings of Lycium barbarum (Tea Plant).  

[Spent following 2 days in bed with temperature, but able to go to work for forenoon on 30th, when weather had turned mild with SW wind & much sun, after a little rain during night of 29th, 30th.]


30th March 1942.

Hybrid Primrose x Cowstep in back garden with first flowers open.  Heard one Bumble Bee but not seen.  Sedge, C. stricta at motor-house sending up vigorous shoots but no flowering spikes yet visible.

April opened with wild showery weather & over Easter it was very cold & wet (i.e. 4th-6th week-end).


9th-11th April were warm & 11th was a perfect summer day with hot sun till late afternoon when wind backed to SE. a jam formed & glass began to fall.


10th April 1942.
Both ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ flowers on Salix aurita in back garden open & on 11th the ♀︎ flowers of Carex stricta at motor house apparently ripe, but no anthers showing on the ♂︎ flowers.  Daisy saw two Small White Butterflies in garden on 11th & one on 12th;  & the N.Z. dinkie-bush = Corokia cotoneaster! came into flower.

11.4.42.  
Sawfly - Cladius pectinicornis? found in tub - Clontarf DU., by E.O'M.

12th April 1942.
Very stormy, some rain after breakfast, otherwise dry.  In afternoon drove in car via Crookling to Kilbride & walked up Dowry through plantation, but did not collect.