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14.10.52, cont.  When passing "Landscape" saw a Small White Butterfly & later two specimens of Plusia gamma flying in the bright sunshine though during night of 13th-14th. there had been a very white ground frost. Everything in the garden white at 8 AM. & ice on the pantry lean-to roof. Wasps seen everywhere!

15th Oct. 1952  In afternoon walked from 54 bus by Willington House, Templeogue Bridge & Butterfield Av. to Rathfarnham & home by bus - Daisy, I, & Mr & Mrs Alan Mitchell. At the Arbutus, which at the moment is a beautiful sight, in Butterfield Avenue at which saw a ♀ Bombus terrestris on 8th Oct. (p. 38 antea!) today saw no less than 5 ♀♀ on it, of which one was B. lucorum & three (& probably four) were B. terrestris. Previously near Willington Ho. I had seen either a ♂ or ♀ Bombus agrorum. Before lunch, while Alan Mitchell & I were cutting out some branches of the Rhamnus cathartica tree in back garden he found on it a curious variety of Coccinella variabilis with pale blotches on "shoulders" of the elytra, but these otherwise tertaceous; those black with white lateral margins & black face with 2 white spots. These I mounted & gave to him later & he destroyed it by accident! There is one specimen like it only in Nat. Mus. collection.


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5th Nov. 1952. Petasites fragrans out on roadside just W. of Templeogue Bridge. Wasps very abundant at Ivy blossom in spite of not too good weather

16th Nov. 1952. After much dull weather with misty rain or drizzle. Took 54 bus at 10.20 AM. & walked via Greenhills, & Tymon Castle, to Fir House & home at 12.15 noon. Hazel by stream near Tymon Castle nearly out. A dull morning & evening & everything wet after recent rain. No wasps seen during walk.

23rd Nov. 1952 Sunday. A most lovely day! Entirely sunny - blue sky, a few small clouds on the hills or lying on the snow-covered summit, above 2,000 feet, sun quite hot, & very gentle W. air. In shelter on could have sat & read quite comfortably in the sun. After a frosty night & much dull, cold, & wet weather for last fortnight. Went by 54 bus at 10.30 to Crumlin cross-road & walked via the Green Hills & Tymon Castle to Balrothery, Templeogue Bridge & back to bus at Rathfarnham. At the highest point of the Greenhills eskery, where the road runs between two old & deep sandpits, Daisy saw a Bumble Bee fly on to the face of the sandpit 6 feet east of the road & called me to see it. It was a ♀ Bombus lucorum & we watched it creeping about the loose face of the vertical sand-cliff, as if looking for a place to creep into. 

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