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57. 24th March 1944. Weather turned beautifully fine & sun nearly all day, with no wind - easterly breeze in Dublin. White Currant flowers in back garden coming out slowly after being retarded by night-frosts. Also flowering on Korokia! Flower spikes on sedge, Carex stricta, against north house wall appeared. 25th March. An equally fine day, with scarcely a cloud & very hot sun. Gentle E. wind in Dublin & very cool; at 5 P.M. wind SW - W. at Harold's Cross & sun almost too hot. During afternoon Daisy saw at least 3 Bumble Bees, one of which she recognised as a ♀︎ B. lucorum on Flowering Currant in back garden & another as B lapidarius on blue Scilla in Miss [[?Pounder's]] garden in Kenilworth Park. At 7 P.M. in back garden we both saw a ♀︎ B. terrestris on Flowering Currant in back garden. 26th March (Sunday). Equally fine, no clouds, E. breeze & very hot sun. In forenoon Daisy saw ♀︎ B. terrestris again on flowering Currant in back garden & I saw ♀︎ B. lucorum, while a ♀ B. jonellus paid a fleeting visit to Salix cinerea. Vespa vulgaris: unusual ♀︎♀︎ seen in garden. 58. 26/3/44, forenoon, cont. Flowers on both ♂︎ and ♀︎ Salix against motor house in back garden out & those of ♀︎ visited by Honey Bees, of which many were at flowering Currant, & at Chionodoxa in front garden. In afternoon rode via Clondalkin to Ballymakaily Bridge & up (i.e. westwards!) Grand Canal, where tried sweeping round some small swampy ponds in old sand pit by canal (= 1); on return journey came back to Clondalkin by canal & tried a few minutes sweeping just west of path to dairy farm, 1/2 mile above Clondalkin (= 2) Grand Canal, Co. Dublin. Bombus Lucorum 2♀︎♀︎ seen on Salix by road w. of Clondalkin. B. jonellus also 2♀︎♀︎ at Salix with last. B. agrorum 1♀︎ seen flying across road. B. derhamellus 1♀︎ watched for some time at 1 visiting flowers of Dandelion & Coltsfoot. Andrena nigroaenea ♂︎♂︎ numerous at "The Green Hills", quarries E. of Clondalkin & at 1.
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Clondalkin is a busy satellite town of Dublin