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JULY, 1928. On the'last day of July the sun

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in front of the house. How fast our’ summers go! July 21th, the sun is 6 min. 22 sec. behind the local mean time. and from then speeds up till Sept 1st, when they agree again. A considerable amount of rain fell during the month, much of it without any perturbation of the barometer. “When the sky threat- ens and the barometer says nothing, look out for squallsl" Several Auro- ras, electric storms, snd rainbows, were recorded; in spite of an old " lady's dictum that “there are no nice rainbows as there used to be!" On the 21st at l0 p.m., I noted a high, bright aurora not much pul- sation to it the wind was light or brisk next day and the sky clear, but on the 23rd rain commented to fall about 6 p.m., and fell till after i6 a.m. on the 24th, the gauge (regis- tering over an inch of rainfall. That is considerably over 100 tons to the acre. On the afternoon of the 21st the cat held a. circus on the lawn; a cat is peculiarly sensitive to any electrical change in the air; and as my readers have perhaps proved. will, itself, give an electric spark if rubbed the wrong way. So when Thomas dlsported on the green, I said. "some change coming," and the Aurora and subsequent rain and high wind gave reply.

The squalls and rain showers made it very "tricky" weather for hay- making, and the long cold spring has, I think, on the lighter land, re- duced the yield.

House flies (muses domestics) have not been very numerous this summer, but there have been (num- bers of the Bluebottle Fly (calliph- ora erythrocephala) to make up for their absence. Potato Beetles were early on their job: June-bugs very scarce. On a visit to town I coi- lectcd some caterpillars from the lime-trees near St. Paul's church; they were those of a. Tussock Moth; probably the "white-marked T. M." from their coral-colored head. As the moth lays its eggs in masses on’ the trunk or main limbs of trees, they can bccollectedisnd" burned any time between Sept. and April, or creosote oil may be applied to the egg masses by means of a small brush. Spraying_will kill the cater- pillars, when they are hatched, but it will readily be seen that it is a “big job"\in a city so embowered as

infestation a few years ago, and the ‘trees were all banded to preventthe female moths (which are Wingless) from crawling up and depositing their eggs. Nature, however. provid-

insect becomes too numerous (over- crowded) tome bacterial or para- sitic disease breaks out, and res- tores the balance. All the same. “Heaven helps those who help them- selves," and the llndens (limes), the glory of Charlottetown, are worthy of any effort made to free them from this pest. In the United States there are two broods annually, one appearing early and being full g own by the middle of June; the se 0nd hatches in July and feeds till the middle of August, whenthe cater- pillars enter the cocoon state. From these the moths emerge at the end of the month and lay their eggs which remain dormant till next Spring. From the lateness of our infestation and the short season, it is probable that there is only one brood here. The smaller white cab- bage butterfly (Pieris rapae L.) is as abundant this year as-it was last. It is said to attack all cruclferous plants and also mignonette, but it most certainly prefers cabbages to turnips. As the summer wanes it is wonderful what a collectioi of insects may be made without stir- ring from the house. Numbers of the vast tribes of the Diptera, Hym- enoptera, and some Coleoptera find ingress and may be captured on the windows. \ lviacflwaln in his “flora of P. E. Island" (i890) records Oenothera biennis, 1..., and O. pumila. l... as the two Evening. Primrose! found here. In a Weed Survey (i926) Prof. Groh, of Ottawa, found 0. muri- cata. L. Two Evening Primrosee sp- peared in my garden this Bprihg, and, although I am averse to letting anything that is "unkraut" (weed-

like) grow there. I allowed them to remain for future study; and it was fortunate! did so. One‘ turned out to be O. muzicats. which I flnd is very common; the other was new- O. cruciate, Nuttaliu I lent part of it to Prof. Groh. who cobmlnldmly determination-and said that the only other C nsdian record was from Sable Island. I afterwards found two other plants of cruciate. one near the house and oilriirttlrbhors field," about two-thirds‘ of a inile away. It may be commoner than we think; for instance. the young msn who cut the field did not no-p

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crows began to be in evidence again. Early in the Spring they spread out over the country and were plentiful here. but the coming of the grackles —“blackbirds"—forced them eaway from this district. The grackles, fearful for their eggs and young. assailed them at every opportunity; hawks fared no better. But new that the grackles have congr ‘ " into flocks, the crows are coming

ity of robins and attribute this to the attacks of squirrels and grackies. The Kingbird seems to be holding its own; I saw a flock of perhaps a score on the roadside trees (July 30), flying along till one drew near, then flying e little further. They are pugnaoious birds, but the only harm attributed "to them is a fond- nees for eating the bees where there are apiarles, whence, in some local- ities, they are called "Bee Martins." Towards the middle of the month ‘the young swallowrieft their neat on ‘the rafters -of the bani and eesayed their first flight. They were timid about it and sat for much of the day on the cross beams, while the old birds flew about below them. as if urging them to "try again." It was two days before they ventured outside, and then they circled and swooped, so that one could not dis- tinguish them from their parents. There were live young.

Some years ago. I made s col- lection of the Wasps (genus Veepa)

of this Province. includes only such wasps as the I-lomet, and the various 'Yellow Jackets," for ‘the Mud-wasps belong to another genus. Wasps are plen- tiful this year, but Cflllefliihg‘ them calls for a. somewhat adventurous spirit. There are in my collection:

(A) Eyes not nearly reaching to mandibles (laws).

(l) Vespa maculata (L) “Black

back. I cannot recall such a scare- Home“, "B-ldmmed Homehnbam’

marked white. not Yellow; flagel-

Nest suspended from trees.

(t) V. diabolic (De Saussure.) "Common Yellow Jacket." Ordin- ary else, markings yellow. The yellow band on the flast of the body seg- ment (next to the thorax) inter- rupted. or nearly so, in the middle. Antennae testaceous (that is, shell- pink) beneath. Nests-‘among , . wood-piles. and the like.

(B) Eyes touching the base of mandibles or very closely contigu-

ous.

(3 V. cohsobrina (De Saussure.) A neat looking wasp. with white markings; hair on the first segment black. not pale. This and the next following, as far as is known, build their nests within the ground. (Rohwen)

(l) V. vulgarls (L) rkirlgs yel- low. “Sass of first a minsl seg- msnt black, with a black point (in- terruption) in the middle of the yellow posterior margin." (Rohwer)

ton. in his at!" limits its rs to Raina. N. 1., and tee, so I sent that "d ’ -

way to the National llsrbsriuin. Ot- ‘

tawshnlaztr year. out?! had the dis- tinct being‘ a spdinlen of Dense! mystics. Wood Groundsel. in that collection.

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(l) V. acadica, (Bladen; nap.) Markings yellow. The black bands of the segments contain reddish or yellow spots on either side. which however may be‘ absent occasionally. The only specimen known to the writer is in a private collection at Mount Herbert, makes al neat.

This list is not in any ey con- clusive; Sladerl gives the ‘names cf fourteen species of Vespoid Wasps

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Simon's admirable paper in the OL- list just given is there shown to be with a Northern range; ‘Imuyl This, of course, tawa Naturalist, Vol. XXXII, page '71. No. 4, V. vuigaris (L) in the a mclnnic variety of that species,

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