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MacLean
1967
Journal
[29 June] now - maybe our frequent checking has
sensitized them. Nest #8 is particularly
difficult.
30 June
Barrow, Alaska
Made it up for lunch. Afternoons
I glued up tanglefoot while Don
prepared doors on emergence traps.
He wants to be able to open and close
them to remove insects as well. Our
vacuum cleaner, if we can make it
work, would be good for this. Made
cardboard shields for the two max-min
thermometers, then loaded the whole
mess on the wheel and took off
for the MicroMer tanglefoot Area (I).
Changed the boards and set 3 emergence
traps here, then drove around to the
South Beach Ridge site (II) and did
the same. On the way removed 2
plovers from Central Marsh, and
got 2 melanotes on the way back.
Weather was pleasant - bright
sunshine, although thermometers read
only 38°F. A large no. Chironomus
was found abundantly over the tundra,
and the first adult tipulids appeared -
a ? tipula on one of the (II) tanglefoots
and a ? Prionocera found when Don