Maclenn 1967 Journal July Barrow, Alaska Back to work. talked with Dr. Pitella about Don's decision to abandon the insect work as thesis material. Don will spend the rest of the summer working with me. With the shorebirds so low here I want to concentrate on the insects for the remainder of the season, so this won't offer much of a change for Don. I would like to address the questions of lifecycle and size distribution as well as spatial distribution this season. they ran some transects in my absence that definitely indicate sex ratios strongly divergent from 1:1 in all 3 species. these should be repeated. Long transects to sample habitat distribution should also be begun soon. took Edna to shooting station to give her sewing the nets for our aerial insect sampling system, then returned for lunch. Afterwards picked up nets (and Edna) and inserted tygon loops of 1 m. circumference into rim of nets. By the time we finished rain was pouring down again (it rains so very hard about 8:00 A.M.) so we decided to count tanglefoots instead of installing nets. Accidentally started