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7th April 1944 (Good Friday).

A beautifully sunny day after a frosty night, with very hot sun.  In afternoon went by bus to Marley, Co. Dublin, & spent 1 1/2 hours there, but E. wind cool & strong.  Did some sweeping along course of "glen" beside Whitechurch Rd. & took the following:-

Bombus lucorum  ♀︎ seen.
Andrena jacobi:  a lovely fresh ♂︎ on flowers of Lesser Celandine.
Campoplegid  ♂︎:  not mtd.
Apanteles  ♂︎, fulvipes group.
Blacus diversicornis  2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 20.
Aspilota nigrescens  ♂︎, ant. 24.
Dacnusa tibialis miki  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ } some of each mounted.
D. areolaris?  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ } some of each mounted.
D. longiradialis  2♂︎♂︎;  ant. both 22.
Aphidius spp.  ♂︎♂︎ - none kept.
Proctos.  9 mtd
Cynipids:  not mtd.


66.

9th April 1944 (Easter Sunday!)

A very nice day with W. wind, but showers in afternoon with some hail, after a depression (without rain) & a dull day with strong S.E. wind on Saturday.

Did not go anywhere!  In afternoon spent some time in garden in very hot sun & took with sucker one small black sawfly Pristiphora? sp.? ♀︎ on White Currant bush;  saw also Bombus jonellus 1♀︎ at Salix, B. lucorum 1♀︎ at Flowering Currant at 7.30 P.M.;  Andrena albicans ♂︎♂︎ & Halictus leucopus ♀︎ at hole in mortar of east wall, as well as several queen wasps, of which the only ones recognised were Vespa vulgaris.

Many plants with first flowers just opening, e.g. Silene acaulis (Snowdon plant!) & Ranunculus auricomus.  Under a board took specimen of the wevil -


8th-9th April 1944.
First sawflies emerged from galled stems & leaves of Salix repens sent me on 1st Aug. 1943 from a small island in Lough Corrib, Co. Galway, near Kilbeg, by Frank Meagher & his daughter: = 

See p.45 ante!