June 16, 1771
Posted by sydney on Jun 16th, 1771
Tempestuous wind & vast rain for 28 hours.
June 15, 1771
Posted by sydney on Jun 15th, 1771
Bar: falls all day. Wheat-ears peep. St foin begins to be cut.
June 13, 1771
Posted by sydney on Jun 13th, 1771
Sphinx filipendula. Emerges from it’s aurelia state. Fixes it’s cods to the dry twigs in hedges; is called in Hants the St foin fly; & is in its crawling state said to be very pernicious to that plant.
June 10, 1771
Posted by sydney on Jun 10th, 1771
Small rain in the night. Ephemera cauda biseta. The angler’s may-fly. Myriads of may-flies appear for the first time on the Alresford stream. The air was crowded with them, & the surface of the water covered. Large trouts sucked them in as they lay struggling on the surface of the stream, unable to rise till their wings were dryed. This appearance reconciled me in some measure to the wonderful account that Scopoli gives of the quantities emerging from the rivers of Carniola. See his Entomologia.
June 6, 1771
Posted by sydney on Jun 6th, 1771
Ephemera vulgata Meridie choreas aireas instituit, sursum recte tendens, rediensque eadem fere via: Scopoli. A mole-cricket’s nest full of small eggs was discovered just under the turf in the garden near the pond. They were of a dirty yellow colour, & of an oval shape, surrounded with a tough skin, & too small to have any rudiments of young withim them, being full of a viscous substance. There might be an hundred eggs in this one nest; they lay very shallow just under a little fresh-moved mould in an hollow formed for that purpose.
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