August 18

Posted by sydney on Aug 18th, 2008
  • 1792: August 18, 1792 – Blackcaps eat the berries of the honey-suckles. Mrs J. White, after long & severe campaign carried on against the Blattae molendinariae, which have of late invaded my house, & of which she has destroyed many thousands, finds that at intervals a fresh detachment of old ones arrives; & particularly during the hot season: for the windows being left open in the evenings, the males come flying in at the casements from the neighbouring houses, which swarm with them. How the females, that seem to have no perfect wings that they can use, can contrive to get form house to house, does not so readily appear. These, like many insects, when they find their present abodes over-stocked, have powers of migrating to fresh quarters. Since the Blattae have been so much kept under, the Crickets have greatly encreased in number.
  • 1791: August 18, 1791 – Timothy grazes.  John White came from Salisbury.  Cut 133 more cucumbers.  Michaelmas daisies begin to blow.  Farmer Spencer, & Farmer Knight make each a noble wheat-rick: the crop very good, & in fine order.
  • 1789: August 18, 1789 – Many pease housed.  Harvest-scenes are now very beautiful!  Turnips thrive since the shower.
  • 1785: August 18, 1785 – Colchicum, autumnal crocus, emerges, & blows.
  • 1784: August 18, 1784 – Spinage very thick on the ground.  Men hoe turnips, stir their fallows, & cart chalk.
  • 1783: August 18, 1783 – The Colchicum, or autumnal crocus blows.  On the evening of this day, at about a quarter after nine o’the clock, a luminous meteor of extraordinary bulk, & shape was seen traversing the sky from N.W. to S.E.  It was observed at Edinburg, & several other Ern. parts of this Island.  No accounts of it, that I have seen, have been published from any of the western counties.  It was also taken notice of at Ostend.  This meteor, I find since, was seen at Coventry, & Chester.  4 swifts at Guildford; 1 swift at Meroe; 1 swift at Dorking.
  • 1782:  – Linnets congregate & therefore have probably done breeding.  Saw a Papilio Machaon in my garden: this is only the third of this species that ever I have seen in this district.  It was alert, & wild.  It is the only swallow-tailed fly in this island.
  • 1781: August 18, 1781 – Some wasps at the butcher’s shop.
  • 1775: August 18, 1775 – Grey.  Sweet afternoon.
  • 1774: August 18, 1774 – Two swifts were seen again on this day at Fyfield: none afterwards.  Two last swifts seen at Blackburn in Lancashire.
  • 1773: August 18, 1773 – Wheat lies in a bad way.  Much cut, little bound, & scarce any housed.
  • 1772: August 18, 1772 – The swifts seem for some days to have taken their leave.  Apricots.  None seen after that time.
  • 1771: August 18, 1771 – No dew, rain, rain, rain.  Swans flounce & dive.  Chilly & dark.
  • 1769: August 18, 1769 – Martins congregate on the roofs of houses.
  • 1768: August 18, 1768 – Martins continue to hatch new broods.  Flies begin to abound in the windows.

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