Wasps somewhat abated. The day & night insects occupy the annuals alternatelly: the papilios, muscae, & apes are succeeded at the close of the day by phalanae, earwigs, woodlice, etc. My tallest beech measures in girth at least three feet from the ground six feet & four inches. It grows at the S.E. end of Sparrow’s hanger, & appears to be upwards of 70 feet high.
Wasps abound, & mangle the graps: we have, I should think, destroyed 50000.
In the dusk of the evening when beetles begin to buz, partridges begin to call; these two circumstances are exactly coincident.
Wasps abound not only in neighbourhoods, but in lone fields, & woods; how satisfied there?
Grey, spitting, bright & sultry, distant lightening. Wasps swarm.
Linnets congregate. Wasps swarm about the Grapes, tho’ so many nests have been destroyed.
Great rain. Hops sadly washed. Destroyed the 26th wasps-nest, a vast colony.
Gathered first grapes: they look well; & are large; but not highly flavoured yet. Sad hop-picking: a large crop in this district. Barley in the suds.
Barley begins to be injured. Many fields of barley, green & not mowed.
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