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... NATURE NOTE Transformation It was on @ sunny summers day that we last visited this wide, straggling hollow, where a narrow road between the hills leads to the mountain bog. At that time clouds of dust swirled upwards at our every step; red ants, black ...
... NATURE NOTE SHAMROCK Everyone now-a-days seems to have a different idea about what is the true Shamrock, the plant used by St. Patrick when he explained the mystery of the Blessed Trinity to our pagan forefathers; and no wonder, for in all there are 21 ...
... NATURE NOTE HAWTHORN Cal] it what you will, Hawthorn, Whitethorn or sgeach-gheal, every- One is familiar with this plant of the hedge and its picturesque red berries. The latter, seen in the fitful sunshine of the month appear to glow with an effulgent ...
... NATURE NOTE TITLARK The Meadcw Pipit or Titlark, the ‘ smallest and one of the commonest birds of the Pipit grocup, may be seen at present in abundance on most pasture land, where the species is gathering into flocks for internal, Eurcpean and Icelandic ...
... NATURE NOTE. “NIGGER”’ In May, 1945, we discovered on the south side of Arranmore Isiand a- solitary specimen of black ant wnich we were unable to identify. On fdrwarding it to the National Museum for examination, we received a reply that the insect wasa ...
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... NATURE NOTE MAY May is the month of Our Lady Mother, when wild flowers make the countryside gay and birds are full of happy song. The typical wild flower of the month is the Hawthorn, and the white foam of its fragrant blossom spreads along the hedged-in ...
... NATURE NOTE The Earthworm As taere are between 50,000 and 500,000 cathworms in each acre of soil the worm must be about the most tamiliar animal in the worid to moese of us. Yet few people trcunle to understand what a wonderful crzature this pink, fat ...
... NATURE NOTE: MEADOWSWEET A favourable flower with many is Meadowsweet, All this month it will be in full bloom, its creamywhite flowers giving fragrance and beauty to waterways and other damp places. In gpite of its sweetness; the dense, compound erect ...
... NATURE NOTE. ANTS About the middle of August is usually the time for * the yearly swarming of the several species ol Ants, but this year they have been later than usual and the nuptial flights have continued on_into ‘Septomber and October. Black. prown ...
... NATURE NOTE: WAXWING This October to April migrant is a very irregular visito: to Ireland. Some years it occurs in large numbers; in others less frequently. Of the four specimens in our National Museum, one was captured in Donegal. The other three are ...
... NATURE NOTE HARVEST-TIME Harvest- ...