Viewing page 107 of 196

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

190.

20th April 1949. 

A beautiful sunny morning with cool NW. breeze, after almost frost:  all sunny till 12:30 noon (S.T.) when SE. wind started & clouds formed:  entirely dull in afternoon with wind S-SW. & falling glass, a depression approached from SW.  Left home on bikes & rode to Clondalkin & up canal at 2:30 P.M. & returned home at 5 P.M.

George went back to Belfast after Easter Holidays by 9 AM train & when I was coming down stairs at 7:30 AM. I looked out of landing window and saw 2 SWIFTS circling over the back garden.  I called Daisy & George up from hall & all three of us watched them for a minute or two.  Half an hour later there was no sign of them & none seen during the day.  At 11 AM. in hot sun saw a ♂︎ Large White Butterfly in front garden sunning itself on a leaf of Anemone japonica & a Small White flew past at same time.

In afternoon did a little sweeping S. of canal in the usual place above 3rd lock W. of Clondalkin & took the following hymenoptera there


191.

20.4.49, cont.  S. of Grand Canal, 1/2 to 3/4 mile W. of Clondalkin, DU. 

Bombus agrorum & Andrena albicans ♂︎♂︎ seen.
Phygadeuon ♂︎, ant. 22 = 
Campoplegid ♂︎, ant. 23 = 
Apanteles lateralis ♂︎
Aspilota nigrescens? ♀︎, ant. 18.
Dacnusa aphanta ♂︎, ant. 26
D. gilvipes ♂︎, ant. 27.
D. laevipectus ♂︎, dark legs, not mtd.
Ephedrus pulchellus  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 11;  segs. 10 & 11 free!
Monoctonus nervosa 3♂︎♂︎: 1♂︎ mtd. ant. 17-18.
Aphidius cf. pascuorum 16 (mostly ♂︎♂︎): not mtd.
Proctos. 2: 1 mtd. = 
Chalcids 1, not mtd.

[11 insects mounted & these labelled "C'l'd'K'n on 23/4/49. A.W.S.]


21st & 22nd April 1949.

Two fine days with cloud & sun getting milder, after slight rain on night of 20th-21st but not enough.  Potatoes planted on 16th March now showing.  Many Mossy Saxifrages out or almost so in both front & back garden.  Hierochloe & Scotland Poa from Corrie Fee in flower & the Avena from Scotland also with many spikes coming on.


23rd April '49.

Two Swifts again seen at 9.30 AM. flying over Westfield Rd., & watched for some time - not seen since 20th.  Blackbird nesting at NW. angle of garden & motor house has now laid three eggs in a nest which has no mud lining, perhaps owing to dry weather & concrete roads, &c.