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At. Barrow, Alaska
July 16
coming into bloom will appear in areas of Potasite.
Ranunculus rivalis is rapidly going past full
bloom and many areas the flowers are shriveling but
in lower regions particularly along the eastern fringe
of the ridge at its base they are now in full bloom.
The Willows on the ridge have completed their bloom
and the catkins are drying up. All but a couple of
plants of Pedicularis have gone past bloom and
are becoming quite dry. Potentilla is still
in good bloom and has not shown signs as
yet of drying. Papaver radicatum is coming
out now in full bloom on the high and somewhat
more gravelly dried areas. 1st flowers of
Cassiope Tetragona are out on central portion
of ridge in a Potasite frigida (predominantly)
area.
Sampling consisted of willow meter plat replicates,
which revealed ±15 Lichneumonids; ±5 Tenthredinids;
±10 Muscoida; ±3 fungivoids ±2 Tipulida
and ±5 miscellaneous diptera (midge, cedids)
per sq. meter. An occasional spider was seen
not only in the more moist + grass interspersed
willow regions. Many midges (including 1st of
the green chironomid) showed up in most
areas visited outside 1 willow area, in fairly
large numbers except for a little green midge which
I think is just coming out aect Red Phtalopore