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22nd Oct. 1944. 

A perfect day!  All sunny in morning & some clouds in afternoon when glass began to fall even more, after a couple of weeks of ups and downs & heavy rain on 19th-20th night.  

In afternoon rode across "The Park" to Tolka Valley to look for A. Comfort's station for snail Hygromia (Ashfordia) granulata & found it on right bank of Tolka just below bridge that carried the old road - now disused - to Finglas.  This bridge is N. of Liffey Junct. station & just N. of Tolka Park on 1" Ord. map:  below bridge is a kind of back-water or "ox-bow" of the river & granulata is abundant on the steep bank of this nearest the road, where a kind of drain runs into the ox-bow & nettles & creeping thistle grow.  On this day the whole valley was nearly under water & the river, ox-bow & meadow all one big flood but in good weather & at right season this & other places in Tolka Valley would well repay working.  Rode home via Ashtown Ho., Ranelagh Bridge, Castleknock & "The Park" & saw a Speckled Wood & Small White Butterflies & many wasps on Ivy. 


23.10.1944. 
On outside of window in Museum, Dublin, took a ♀︎ (ant. 42) of Paniscus longipes?


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29th Oct 1944. 

A perfect day, with very light N. breeze & some clouds in afternoon, otherwise all sunny & quite hot sun too.

In afternoon rode on bikes via Clondalkin & Milltown to Ballymakaily Bridge & then along Grand Canal to Hazlehatch & home via Newcastle, Saggart, Fortunestown & Tallaght.  2 P.M. till 6.15 P.M. 

On way up canal saw much nice ground for collecting around old quarry holes & along parallel drains & hedges; &c.  About a mile SW of Ballymakaily (1/2 mile beyond Gollierstown Bridge) heard a bumble-bee at ivy-covered thorn & went to investigate.  The ivy was in full flower & covered with wasps & flies & amongst these saw a Bombus agrorum (? a ♀︎);  several others heard by myself or Daisy & one with a very deep hum I knew was not agrorum;  this last was eventually located & proved to be a magnificent (& apparently very dark-coloured) B. terrestris ♀︎.  No other hymenoptera seen & no bumbles seen except at this one spot.


30th Oct 1944. 
Wasps still flying plentifully to nest in front garden, 14 Clareville Rd., between 1 & 2 P.M. on this date.

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