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Insect Year Notes (1869)

[Fort maintained a collection of his “Insect Year” notes, within his chronological series. This large bundle of  notes had been kept separate from other notes of 1869, and, thus, were were not integrated into the chronological order. These notes will be integrated with the other notes of 1869 in a chronological order; but, their original order, (as found by Thayer), will be preserved herein.]

[Thayer: "From this point until you read a disclaimer, all the notes were within one wire clip affixed by Fort," (which ends with "1869 / autumn, (III; 2056.).]

1869 / summer / Gypsy moth first appear in Amer? / Said that a French Canadian had brought a caterpillar from Europe in 1869, experimenting upon hybrid silkworms that could withstand the climate, and then spread. / Chicago Tribune, July 15. [III; 1856. (Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1890, p. 9 c. 3.) "A New Insect Pest." Rural New Yorker, 49 (January 18, 1890): 40. "Massachusetts Vs. The Gypsy Moth." Rural New Yorker, 49 (July 12, 1890): 446-447. "The Gypsy Moth." Indianapolis Journal, May 3, 1895, p. 4 c. 7. Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, (not a French Canadian), while at Medford, Massachusetts.]

1869 Aug / Syrphi / Isle Wight / Aug. 14, 1864. [III; 1857. See: 1864 Aug 14, (III; 592)]

1869 Aug / Insect year / 1892. [III; 1858. See: (1892.)]

1869 Aug / Insect year / 1886. [III; 1859. See: (1886).]

1869 Aug / Swarms of 1921 / not said insect famine but drought equals this. [III; 1860. See: (1921).]

1869 / summer / Locusts in England / Notes and Queries 2/4/267, 397 / 5/37. [III; 1861. Taylor, Henry W.S. "Locusts in England." Notes and Queries, s. 2 v. 4 (October 3, 1857): 267. "Locusts in England." Notes and Queries, s. 2 v. 4 (November 14, 1857): 397-398. Taylor, E.S. "Locusts in England." Notes and Queries, s. 2 v. 5 (January 9, 1858): 37.]

1869 Aug / Butterflies one place / ants other place / July 16, 1926. [III; 1862. See: 1926 July 16, (XI; 696).]

1869 Aug / Insects scarce and abundant / See summer, 1865. [III; 1863. See: (1865).]

1869 Aug / Swarms / 1888. [III; 1864. See: (1888).]

1869 Aug / Insects / See autumn, 1872. [III; 1865. See: 1872 autumn, (IV: 975 & 976).]

1869 Aug 12 / Insects / See Sept., 1921. [III; 1866. See: 1921 Sept 24, (X; 1514).]

1869 Oct / Locusts and drought in England / July 6, 1921. [III; 1867. See: 1921 July 6, (X; 1371).]

1869 Aug 12 / A green fly in London / Feb 21, 1921. [III; 1868. See: 1921 Feb 21, (D; 1243).]

1869 Aug 13 / Swarms / 1892. [III; 1869. See: (1892).]

1869 Aug 10 / Insects and drought / June, July, etc., 1921. [III; 1870. See: (1921).]

1869 Aug 13 / Locusts / Ireland / London / Aug 31, 1857. [III; 1871. See: 1857 Aug 31, (II; 2082).]

1869 Oct / Locusts and sunpots / Editorial, N.Y. Times, 1879, Jan 15-4-6. [III; 1872. "The maximum and minimum of sun-spots...." New York Times, January 15, 1879, p. 4 c. 6-7.]

1869 Oct / Locusts in Feb., in England / 1875. [III; 1873. See: 1875 Feb 25, (IV; 1609).]

1869 Aug. / Insect year / 1846. [III; 1874. See: (1846).]

1869 Aug 10 / Hosts of saw flies and ladybirds / Aug 2, 1858. [III; 1875. See: 1858 July 31, (II; 2218).]

1869 Aug. / Locust in winter / Feb 25, 1875. [III; 1876. See: 1875 Feb 25, (IV; 1609).]

1869 Oct / Locusts / appeared in 1846 / Field, Oct 23, 1869. [III; 1877. Briggs, John Joseph. "The Egyptian Locust." Field, October 23, 1869, p. 347. "In 1846 there was a considerable number captured, but usually by single individuals, and they appeared as far north as Sutherlandshire."]

1869 Oct / Locusts / Ireland / London / 1857 / [LT], Sept 1-7-d / 2-7-d / Aug 31-8-c. [III; 1878. "A Strange Visitor." London Times, August 31, 1857, p. 8 c. 3. "A Live Locust in London." London Times, September 1, 1857, p. 7 c. 4. "Locusts in England." London Times, September 2, 1857 p. 7 c. 6. See: 1857 Aug 3, (II; 2082). These reports of locusts are from 1857, (not 1869).]

1869 Aug 13 / "Harpatus" / near Dover / Aug 12, 1839. [III; 1879. See: 1839 Aug 12, ([II; 74).]

1869 Aug 13 / (Col) / Ants of a foreign species / Jan. 10, 1913. [III; 1880. See: 1913 Jan 10, (MB-I; 295).]

1869 Aug / Aphides / July 24, 1839. [III; 1881. See: 1839 July 24, (II; 64).]

1869 / summer / See Summer Insects, etc., 1892. [III; 1882. See: (1892).]

1869 Aug / L.B. / See Aug 8, 1826. [III; 1883. See: 1826 Aug 8, (I; 1274).]

1869 Aug 13 / (+) / L.B. / (Lead up to all year) / See Aug 20, 1864. / See July 24, '69. [III; 1884. See: (1864 Aug 20), and, 1869 July 24, (III; 1973, 1974, & 1985).]

1869 Aug / L.B.'s / Summer of 1807. [III; 1885. See: 1807 Aug ?, (I; 207).]

1869 Oct / No locust in immature state in Britain ever recorded / Sci Gos, May 1895, p. 83. [III; 1886. Briggs, Charles Adolphus. "Locusts in London." Science Gossip, n.s., 2 (no. 15; May 1895): 83.]

1869 Oct / Locust in Eng. / Feb. 25, 1875. [III; 1887. See: 1875 Feb 25, (IV; 1609).]

1869 Oct / Locusts / England and Ireland / Aug 31, 1857. [III; 1888. See: 1857 Aug 31, (II; 2082).]

1869 (Oct) / Great numbers of locusts in England in 1846 / Field, Oct. 3, 1857. [III; 1889. (Field, October 3, 1857; not at BNA.) See: 1846, (II; 913).]

1869 Oct / Spiders / Just such a fall of spiders away from webs, in Oct 5, 1869. [III; 1890. See: 1869 Oct 4, (III; 1928).]

1869 Aug / L.B. / Aug 8, 1826 / Always about at Brighton. [III; 1891. See: 1826 Aug 8, (I; 1274).]

1869 Aug 31 / See b. swan, 1846. / Black swan killed near Lowestoft "without the slightest traces of an escaped bird. / Zoologist 1869-1867. [III; 1892. Gunn, T.E. "Black Swan on the Suffolk Coast." Zoologist, s. 2 v. 4 (1869): 1867.]

1869 Aug 13 / Swarms / 2 kinds / March 25, 1889. [III; 1893. See: 1889 March 25, (VI; 1588).]

1869 Aug / Insects / See 1893. / summer. [III; 1894. See: (1893).]

1869 / summer / Daily News / have Aug 15—Sept 15. [III; 1895.]

1869 July-Aug / LLoyd's Weekly Newspaper / Have. [III; 1896.]

1869 Aug 13 / Ladybirds / France / No mention in Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques. [III; 1897.]

1869 Aug 13 / Nothing of L.B. in Cosmos. [III; 1898.]

1869 Aug 13 / L.B. / Nothing findable in Jour. des Debats. [III; 1899.]

1869 Aug 13 / Nothing of L. birds in Rev. et Mag de Zoologie, 1869. [III; 1900.]

1869 Aug 13 / L.B. / No mention of ladybirds in pubs of Ent Socs of France and Belg. / Nothing in L'Abeille. [III; 1901.]

1869 / summer / BO / In Battersea Park (London) clouds of insects, hovering over trees in such smoke-like volume that people thought trees been set afire. / Field, June 4, 1870, p. 474. [III; 1902. "Clouds of Insects." Field, June 4, 1870, p. 474.]

[1869] / Insect famine might mean mysterious awareness other parts of this earth. / But the foreign lb's clearly (?) not of this Earth—not of England, not from France. [III; 1903.]

1869 Aug 13 / See Aug 13, 1841. / Ramsgate, etc. / vast swarms ladybirds / L.T. Index. [III; 1904. "Ladybirds." London Times, August 19, 1869, p. 4 c. 6. "The Great Flight of Ladybirds." London Times, August 21, 1869, p. 5 c. 2. "Lady-Birds." London Times, August 25, 1869, p. 4 c. 5. "Lady-Birds." London Times, August 28, 1869, p. 10 c. 6. There is no note regarding ladybirds for August 13, 1841. See: 1847 August 16, etc., (II; 1137).]

1869 Aug 13 / The lb's described in The Field of Aug 28. "Strange to say, they are all, with a very few exceptions, yellow." Cor writes that never before had he, so far as he could remember, seen yellow ladybirds of this species (the seven-spotted), the yellow ones in his experience having been the 22-spotted. [III; 1905.1, 1905.2. "Ladybirds." Field, August 28, 1869, p. 175.]

1869 Aug 14 / l.b. / Dover "covered with them". / Sci. Op. 2-26. "I some exceptional instances being accompanied by number of wasps." [III; 1906. (Scientific Opinion, 2-26.)]

1869 Aug 13 / In the Thanet Advertiser (Ramsgate and Margate News). The enormous numbers told of and it is said that there could be no doubt that they had come from the Continent. [III; 1907. "Extraordinary Swarm of Lady Birds." Thanet Advertiser, August 21, 1869, p. 3 c. 1.]

1869 Aug 14 / Ramsgate / bathers with a rash of them / eczema of them. [III; 1908. (Refs???)]

1869 Aug 13 / ldbs / The slaughter enormous. Whereever passed over water, it caught many—D. News, Aug 23—cor tells of skimming hundreds from a cistern. [III; 1909. "Lady-Birds." London Daily News, August 23, 1869, p. 5 c. 1.]

1869 Aug 13 / In Land and Water, quoted L.T., Aug 21, description of them, pointing out their "feeble flight". Spoken of as coming "in clouds from foreign shores"—What foreign shores? [III; 1910. (Land and Water, 1869.) "The Great Flight of Ladybirds." London Times, August 21, 1869, p. 5 c. 2. "Whence these ladybirds came and where they were hatched, whether in Central Russia, France, or Germany, and how they managed to fly with feeble wings across the sea between England and the Continent, no hman beings knows."]

1869 Aug 13 / Aug 21, Rugby Gazette, said that latter part of the week of 7-14th. the lbs had covered the cliffs at Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex), having come from inland—on the 15th were flying back. Nothing said that were seen coming from inland, simply that they appeared and thickly covered the ground. [III; 1911.1, 1911.2. (Rugby Gazette, August 21, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Aug 13 / (+) / Editorial in the Field, Aug 28—In many parts of Kent, fires lighted to burn them; in Folkstone—so recorded—drains opened and bushels of them swept in. / (+) "Our friend Mr. Jenner Weir thinks these migrants slightly different [in colour] from the ordinary English specimens of the same insect. The red is paler, and there are divers slight differences that rather indicate a foreign origin." [III; 1912.1, 1912.2. "During the pressent month...." Field, August 28, 1869, pp. 171-172.]

1869 Aug 13 / Stress that a yellow flight (foreign) / Do red describing for 1848. [III; 1913.]

1869 Aug / Field, Oct. 1, 1864 / Editor writes that ladybirds move from place to place in search of aphides but otherwise are not migratory. [III; 1914. (Field, October 1, 1864; not at BNA.)]

1869 Aug 13 / Plan / Tell ladybirds. Syrps with them. / What other go back to June. The mystery of cold space. Answer is rising temperature with insects of October with warm air. [III; 1915.]

1869 Aug / L.b's / Worcestershire visited by a plague of them. / Field, March 12, 1870. [III; 1916. "Ladybirds." Field, March 12, 1870, p. 221.]

1869 / Entomologists Annual, 1870, says was an insect-famine so that many swallows starved to death. [III; 1917. Knaggs, H. Guard. "Notes on New and Rare British Lepidoptera (Excepting Tineina) in 1869." Entomologists Annual, 1870, 121-135, at 121-122.]

1869 Aug / N. / L.B. / Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Soc.-1-62 / Mr. T. Southwell tells of the arrival of the ladybirds in Norfolk. He thinks that their onward movements in search of food would account for the appearance on the shore that led to the idea they had come from the Continent, unable to accept that their powers of flight could have carried them over the sea. He says that upon July 24th off Hunstanton was seen a mass of dead ladybirds in a stripe ten feet broad and two or three miles along. These ladybirds he thinks had left the Norfolk shore alighting on sand then drowned in a rising tide.  At this place was a tremendous swarm of Syrphidae, that it seems had accompanied the ladybirds and were saved by their superor powers of flight. He thinks that those of August could never have come from the Continent, but unobserved had gone out from the Norfolk coast and had been blown back. [III; 1918.1 to 1918.5. Southwell, Thomas. "Note on the Recent Visitation of Lady-Birds, &c." Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 1 (1869-1874): 62-64.]

1869 Aug 13 / In the Times, Aug 28, cor describes the cloud that came in an East wind as if from Calais. Asks that naturalists in France find where the origin. [III; 1919. "Lady-Birds." London Times, August 28, 1869, p. 10 c. 6.]

1869 Aug 15 / L.B.'s / London account in Zoologist 2/4/1840 / and 1922. [III; 1920. Healy, Charles. "A Swarm of Ladybirds." Zoologist, s. 2 v. 4 (1869): 1840. Cordeaux, John. "The Last of the Ladybirds." Zoologist, s. 2 v. 4 (1869): 1922.]

1869 Aug / LB / They made trees look fruitful and eccentric as to size of the cluster. Strawberries on elm trees, oak trees with tomatoes, etc. [III; 1921.]

1869Aug 13 / (Times) / Reached London on 15th. / Children scooping them up and filling paper bags with them. Someone explains that so abundant because state of the climate favorable this year (but see other notes on unfav.). Such explainers ignore that the lb's were seen to arrive in England. Spread not only to London. Times, 28th, that on 14th, 15th, 16[th], "countless multitudes" appeared upon the coast of Kent and Sussex. / On 15th, at Dover, another "enormous multitude of these insects, like a cloud, coming over the sea as if from Calais. Said that earlier this day had been a similar occurrence when they had rattled against east windows like colored hail. This writer can't think that swarm after swarm had been blown from English shores and then blown back. He has to think they came from France and hopes observers there can explain. [III; 1922.1 to 1922.4. "Ladybirds." London Times, August 19, 1869, p. 4 c. 6. "Lady-Birds." London Times, August 28, 1869, p. 10 c. 6.]

1869 Aug 14-15 / (+) / Ramsgate / lb's / "Languid and weak, either from long flight or absence of food." "The majority were of large size and of a dull yellow hue." / The Student 4-160. [III; 1923. "Great Swarm of Lady-Birds." Student and Intellectual Observer, 4 (1870): 160.]

1869 Aug 18 / Standard of—Cor. writes that Lady birds had appeared upon the coast of Essex covering the cliffs of Walton-on-the-Naze. So incrediable the notion that they had flown from France that this writer, like others, says that a wind blowing from England appeared to have taken them E out to sea—wind veering—carrying them back. Standard, Aug 19—at Hastings—impossible to take a step without crushing some. 2 letters upon vast swarms in London on 14th and 15th. Standard, Aug. 20—swarms in St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Southend, Essex and Bedford. Cor from St. Leo. writes "They all seem to be much larger than the common ladybird; of a paler color, with more spots. Standard, 21st, at Woodbridge—"myriads." [III; 1924.1, 1924.2, 1924.3. "Ladybirds." London Standard, August 19, 1869, p. 7 c. 1. "Ladybirds." London Standard, August 20, 1869, p. 5 c. 2. (London Standard, August 21, 1869.)]

1869 Aug 14 / ac to cor to Times of 21st or 28th / On 15th, a cloud of lb's at Dover / As if coming from Calais. [III; 1925. "Lady-Birds." London Times, August 28, 1869, p. 10 c. 6.]

1869 Aug 13 / (Bug—Evidence) / All flights ab. Aug 13. / Not another here since 1869. / Notes upon U.S. phe especially abundant between 1880 and 1895 but not one. / See 1902 instance—cosmic times / But aphides of this earth do migrate. / There are no flights of terrestral ladybirds. / Then we conceive of an impulse somewhere else ab. Aug. 13. / Then arriving in a well aggregated column and vigorous they did not come far. [III; 1926.1, 1926.2.]

1869 Oct 3 (.) / Spiders / Kendal Mercury 9-4-3 / That soon after the 3rd, people became conscious of an unusual presence in the air. Said they were spiders—air alive with them—myriads of small brown insects upon long streamers. Said covered the town and neighborhood. Said that they came in with more genial weather. [III; 1927.1, 1927.2. "A Shower of Spiders." Kendal Mercury, October 9, 1869, p. 2 c. 6.]

1869 Oct 4 / Spiders / Carlisle / Carlisle Journal 5-2-4 / A shower of spiders a dark mahogany color an came down in countless numbers. Ac to description not aeronautical spiders, no mention of falling webs, but said that after landing they began to spin webs. "Small spiders, resembling ants in form, but smaller." Webs were "whiter and more visible than those of ordinary spiders". [III; 1928.1, 1928.2. (Carlisle Journal, October 5, 1869, p. 2 c. 4; 1869 not at BNA.)]

1869 Oct 8 / (spiders) / The account is in Daily News 14-6-1. Same account. [III; 1972. "Strange Phenomenon." London Daily News, October 14, 1869, p. 6 c. 1.]

1869 Oct. 12 (before) / Tiverton Times of—(same cor as other note) / That a day or two before writing—had seen in a field and also in the streets of Tiverton a vast number of strands of spider web, and spiders moving in the air. Says that members of the British Association lived in Tiverton but they had not explained. [III; 1929.1, 1929.2. (Tiverton Times, October 12, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Oct. 15 / Webs / Tiverton Times, Oct. 19—That South Moulten had been visited on 15th by "a wonderful phenomenon. About noon suddenly came intense heat equal to any temperature in July. In the forenoon had been noted "cobwebs like pieces of cotton" floating in the air. They increased in numbers and continued to fall all the rest of the day "in wondrous quantities—covering fields—houses, persons, silk hats seeming to have a special attraction for them. "They were perfectly white, and in the form of iummensely long shreds, at intervals on which were large flocculent masses like balls of gun cotton." "The shreds were quite tough, like hemp, and extremely coarse" but they were composed of striated fibres. "It appeared remarkable that insects were not entangled by them." "Some few say that they remarked small spiders attached in rare instances." The wind was northwest by north. The northwest writer says that in Barnstaple, 12 miles to the W.N.W., they had not appeared. [III; 1930.1 to 1930.5. (Tiverton Times, October 19, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Oct. 12 / (Flies) / Tiverton Times of / Cor writes that swarms of flies had collected against the upper window of the Town Hall. "Myriads of the the insects were there congregated and gave two or three of the windows a blackened appearance." "A short time since." He hopes that readers who had been accounting for the plague of ladybirds might explain this phe. He tells of the spider webs. [III; 1931.1, 1931.2. (Tiverton Times, October 12, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Oct / Spiders / Plymouth paper / Western Daily Mercury/ nothing. [III; 1932.]

1869 Oct 15 / Where L and D, nothing in Luton Gazette and Dunstable Courier. [III; 1933.]

1869 (Oct 4) / Tiverton Times of Oct 19, in commenting upon fall at Carlisle (in another column), says that "A similar visitation was noticed at Kendal, but no explanation has as yet been offered for the strange phenomenon." / K. is 35 miles from Carlisle. [III; 1934.1, 1934.2. (Tiverton Times, October 19, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Nov 19 / See Oct. / E Mec of / That the town of S. Moulton, N. Devon, had been visited by cobwebs. "They were perfectly white, in long shreds, some many yards in length, quite tough, extremely coarse. Insects were not entangled in them, but in a few instances spiders were seen attached to them. The microscope revealed them to be composed of striated fibre distinctly separated, at distances nucleated." [III; 1935.1, 1935.2, 1936. "Singular Phenomenon." English Mechanic, 10 (no. 243; November 19, 1869): 235-236.]

1869 Oct 15 / Point is, I have looked in Barnstaple and Bideford Times and other papers. Seems that this great fall that was seen, so far as I can find out, only at Carlisle, did come down. / (Tiverton 18 miles SE of S Moulton) / Not at Tiv, either. [III; 1937.]

1869 Aug / L.B. det / dropping on—a cloud of them taking the form of Westminster Abbey—dark cloud precipitating enormous crystal / own suspicion that everything that had form only outlines upon underlying pattern. [III; 1938. (Refs???)]

[III; 1939. "Duplicate of III-1982." See: 1869 Aug 31, (III; 1892).]

1869 / summer / All the invasions at or near the Coast. [III; 1940.]

1869 Oct, early in / Cor to The Field, Nov. 27, writes that 2 locusts had been captured at Burton-on-Trent. Says that not the locust that had frequently before been seen in England but was the locust of northern Africa and Asia. So far as he was aware, the insect had never before visited Europe. [III; 1941.1, 1941.2. (Field, November 27, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Oct / The Burton locust. It was exhibited at the Meeting of the Entomological Society, Nov. 15, 1869—"It appeared to be identical with a species [of which the British Museum possess five examples] from North Bengal." It was found in a yard of a brewery and one of the entomologists suggested it came from N. Bengal in an empty returned ale cask. This would have it only coincidence with the locusts of Plymouth, etc. [III; 1942.1, 1942.2. "November 15, 1869." Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 17 (1869): Proceedings, 24-27, at 24, (xxiv).]

1869 Oct 8-9 / Locusts / Writer in the Journal of the Plymouth Institute 4-156 says that he believes there is no record of a previous visit to England b these locusts (Acridium peregrinum). "The heat in the shade on the 8th and 9th was 74 degrees and 76 degrees Fahr. May not the temperature have influenced the migration?" / My own notion is that volume of heated air and the locusts from the same place. [III; 1943.1, 1943.2. Rowe, Joshua Brooking. "Natural History Notes." Annual Reports and Transactions of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, 4 (1869-1873): 154-156 , at 156.]

1869 Oct / Ent. Mo. Mag. of / And yet a cor writes that ac to his experience and reading, insects had been unusually scarce, summer of 1869. / Editor writes that especially white butterflies had been unusually scarce. / In Jan, 1870, issue, someone else writes upon the subject, especially the scarcity of butterflies. / Feb., 1870, p. 218, another writes and mentions "the unfavorable season" of 1869. [III; 1944.1, 1944.2. Marsden, Herbert. "Note on the scarcity of Lepidoptera in 1869." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 6 (January, 1870): 191. Bloomfield, E.N. "Lepidoptera captured at Guestling in 1869." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 6 (February 1870): 218.]

1869 Oct / locusts / In Ent Mo Mag 7-1, said these locusts were new to European fauna. Said mentioned in no work upon European Orthoptera (Italics). Said at Plymouth many taken; so large that one of them was thought to be an escaped canary. The writer says that he had investigated. Had a query published in a French entomological publication, but no news reached him that they been seen in any part of Europe. He says that if had come from Africa, scarcely likely that the passage would have escaped notice in Italy, France or Spain. / Here said was an African locust but in the Entomologist said appeared to be identical with a species from Bengal. / Here mention 5 counties in which been seen. [III; 1945.1 to 1945.4. Brown, Edwin. "Remarks on the Recent Migration to Britain of Acridium Peregrinum, a Locust New to the European Fauna." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 7 (June 1879): 1-3. Newman, Edward. "English Locusts." Entomologist, 5 (January 1870); 13-14.]

1869 / BO / Cor, Field, Aug 28, says of those that visited Shropshire, were yellow of a species he had no recollection of having ever seen before. / In a "leader" the Editor writes that in ionion of Mr Jenner Weir they were different from ordinary English specimens. "The red is paler, and there are divers slight differences that rather indicate a foreign origin." [III; 1946.1, 1946.2. (Field, August 28, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Aug. 13 / BO / LBs / Nothing in Bibliotheque Universelle nor Revue des Cours Scientifiques. [III; 1947.]

1869 July / Cor to Sci Op., 3-261, saw oblong white objects ab ⅓ inch long on leaves and found them to be cotton-like secretions of a new insect for which he proposed the name Coccus flocciferus. [III; 1948. "A New Insect: Coccus Flocciferus." Scientific Opinion, 3 March 16, 1870): 261. Westwood, John Obadiah. "The various instincts exhibited by different species of animals...." Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1870 (March 5): 308, (illustration). Westwood's new species was named Pulvinaria floccifera.]

1869 Aug 13 / In Galignani's Messenger (Aug 22) (Paris), the invasion of England by the lb's is told of. But no mention in any issue of this newspaper of lb's seen in or going from, France. / Also told of 5th and Sept. 4. [III; 1949. "Ladybirds." Galignani's Messenger, August 22, 1869, p. 2 c. 3. "Ladybirds." London Times, August 19, 1869, p. 4 c. 6. The Galignani's Messenger copied the Times article.]

1869 / Scarcity / Field, Sept 4 / Cor writes that he had been in more than 6 weeks at Axminster he had seen exactly 4 houseflies. [III; 1950. (Field, September 4, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 (Aug. 25) / BO / p. 193 / This is Sci Op. 2-292 / "Thrips. [III; 1951. (Scientific Opinion, 2-292.)]

1869 Aug 12 / L.B. / See Aug., 1807. [III; 1952. See: 1807 Aug ?, (I; 207).]

1869 Sept 8 / Myriads of lb's near the Humber. / Zoologist 1869-1922. [III; 1953. Cordeaux, John. "The Last of the Ladybirds." Zoologist, s. 2 v. 4 (1869): 1922.]

(1869) / BO / LBs / First ap at Ramsgate on 9th. / Land and Water, Aug 21 / Det glitter in sunlight / L.W., Sept 4 / Amusing description of 5 cats attracted to a lawn, gazing with amazement at the multitudes on the lawn, gazing as intently as if hypnotized. [III; 1954.1, 1954.2. (Land and Water, August 21, 1869. Land and Water, September 4, 1869.)]

1869 Sept 5 and 6./ BO / Inverness Courier, Sept. 9—that suburbs of Burntisland infested with swarms of the fly known as the "spinning jenny". "They literally covered the Links and road east of the town, and clustered in the doorways and window sills of the houses." [III; 1955. "A Plague of Flies." Inverness Courier, September 9, 1869, p. 3 c. 6.]

1869 / BO / Locusts peculiarity is that though a main swarm in Oct, others earlier. One Sept 14th, and one in August in Gloucestershire. / Field, Oct. 23. [III; 1956. (Field, October 23, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Aug 28 / Gardener's Magazine of—discussion of the subject, said, p. 100, that in 1868 the caterpillar of the small white butterfly had been common. So how account for the rarity in 1869? [III; 1957. (Gardeners' Magazine, (Gardener's Weekly Magazine,vol. 12???), August 28, 1869, p. 100.)]

1869 Aug 28 and Sept 4 / Ayrshire Express of—several notices of hummingbirds that had been seen in different places in Scotland. The Editor writes that they must have been hummingbird moths. [III; 1958. (Ayrshire Express, August 28, 1869. Ayrshire Express, September 4, 1869; not at BNA. Only one hummingbird was reported in John Ballantine's garden, at Cumnock, Scotland, in a few newspapers.)]

1869 Aug 20 / BO / Scarce / Standard / Writers says that at St Leonard's-on-Sea, all insects except ladybirds and black ants were "few and far between". / Showered down at Shoeburyness that men interfered with in work in the brick fields. / Standard, 20th. [III; 1959.1, 1959.2, 1959.3. "Ladybirds." London Evening Standard, August 20, 1869, p. 2 c. 6.]

1869 Aug. 24 / BO / At Long Benton appeared immense number of Pieris rapae, so scarce everywhere else. / Ent. Mo. Mag., Dec, 1869. Swarms falling every garden. Thousands killed by the gardeners. [III; 1960. Bold, T.J. "Great abundance of Pieris rapae." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 6 (December 1869): 171.]

1869 Aug 18 / BO / Aberdeen Free Press, Aug 20 / For two hours Inverness invaded by midges. "At some points the cloud was so dense that people had to hold their breath and run through." [III; 1961. "An extraordinary flight of midges...." Aberdeen Free Press, August 20, 1869, p. 8 c. 5.]

1869 Aug 18 / The midges told of in Inverness Courier, of 19th, and said that been unusual number of aphides. [III; 1962. "Flight of Midges." Inverness Courier, August 19, 1869, p. 5 c. 6.]

1869 Aug 14 / Standard of / Extraordinary abundance in Donegal Bay, of salmon, mackeral, herrings and other species. [III; 1963. "Remarkable Abundance of Fish in Donegal Bay." London Standard, August 14, 1869, p. 3 c. 3.]

1869 / For several days early in Sept—air full and earth covered with yet another swarm of insects. / Gardener's Chronicle, Sept 18 / This at Beccles for several days—gnats "nothing like such an infliction had ever been seen by the 'oldest inhabitant.'" [III; 1964. "Yet another Swarm of Insects." Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1869 (September 18): 991.]

[1869] / BO / LBs / Land and Water, Aug 28 / Cor writes that with them were osome with colors reversed: black bodies and red spots. / Sept 4—In Land & W, description of the invasion of 15th. Watched as a dark cloud coming in from the sea. [III; 1965. (Land and Water, August 28, 1869.)]

1869 / BO / Fireflies had been so numerous that they had been "denounced as a nuisance". [III; 1966. "Fire-Flies in Surrey." London Times, July 20, 1869, p. 11 c. 1. "Having been in the tropics, I recognized my beautiful visitors, which had been, so numerous were they, denounced as nuisances."]

1869 / BO / L. and W., Sept 4—description of cloud of beetles thought to have been (Aphodius contaminatus) last of August, at Ullswater. An army that flew in regiments occupying ½ hour in passing. [III; 1967. (Land and Water, September 4, 1869.)]

1869 [July 31] / BO / Shower of frogs at Henwick, near Worcester. / Dover Telegraph, Aug 25. [III; 1968. (Dover Telegraph, August 25, 1869; not at BNA.) "Shower of Frogs near Worcester." Birmingham Daily Gazette, August 5, 1869, p. 6 c. 6. "A correspondent sends us the following:—On Saturday evening last, about seven o’clock, I happened to make a call upon a friend in the Henwick road, near Worcester, and, after a little conversation, lasting a quarter of an hour, I resumed my walk up the road; but, to my great astonishment, found the way, for a quarter of a mile, covered with myriads of minute frogs, hopping about as lively as so many newly-landed little sailors. They were about the size of a sixpence or a shilling, some a little larger. Now, I should state that nothing of the kind was visible fifteen minutes before,—that is, when we entered our friend’s dwelling. Talking to a respectable person in the neighbourhood upon the subject, we were informed that a similar phenomenon occurred something like a year ago; but, on that occasion, they were toads, not frogs, being of a much darker colour."]

[1869 July 31 /] 1869 Aug 7 / frgs / Cor to Weekly Budget (London), Aug 14 / On Henwick road, near Worcester road, for ¼ mile covered with myriads of little frogs size of a sixpence to a shilling. He had passed that way ¼ of an hour before and not one visible. Says were frogs and not toads. Says year before such an invasion of little toads had been seen. [III; 2033.1, 2033.2. (London Weekly Budget, August 14, 1869.)  See: 1869 July 31, (III; 1968).]

1869 Aug 21 / Insects / Field of / Cor writes that one afternoon "last week" (so about middle of August) there was a swarm of midges or "thunder bugs" between Wingham and Adisham. Seems not of local origin. Cor's clothes covered. So other persons who said "that they had never previously been so assailed." [III; 1969.1, 1969.2. "Extraordinary Swarm of Midges." Field, August 21, 1869, p. 159.]

1869 August / At Long Benton. Immense swarms of small, black Thrips swarmed into houses and were swept from the walls and floors like dust; doorsteps black with thousands of them. / Ent. Mo Mag, 1869-171. [III; 1970. Bold, T.J. "Great abundance of Thrips." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 6 (December 1869): 171.]

1869 Aug 25 / Scarborough / sudden appearance of myriads of a minute winger insect. of a species of "Thrips / There had been similar swarms in the summer of 1859. / Sci Opinion 2-292. [III; 1971. (Scientific Opinion, 2-292.)]

1869 July 24 / Dead Ladybirds on Norfolk Coast. / See Aug trans Norfolk. Syriphidaes with them. [III; 1973. Southwell, Thomas. "Note on the Recent Visitation of Lady-Birds, &c." Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 1 (1869-1874): 62-64.]

1869 July 24 / Off coast of Norfolk a mass of dead ladybirds ab. 10 feet broad and two or three miles long. / Sci Gos 1869-231 / Ab 9 miles from Coast. / At same time an immense swarm of Syrphidae. [III; 1974. Southwell, Thomas. "Insect Visitation." Science Gossip, 5 (no. 58; October 1, 1869): 231-232, at 231.]

1869 Sept 12 / Boro' Bridge / Unknown little moth caught. The wings were composed of feathers. Nothing like it described in Newman's British Moths and similar works. / Sci Op 2-359. [III; 1975. (Scientific Opinion, 2-359.)]

1869 Oct 8 / BO / 2 p.m. / Large white flakes if web fell at Cowes. / L. and Water, Oct 23 / And an "immense quantity of flakes" at Andover, Sept 29, ac to F. Buckland. According to my records these 6 (?) falls in period of 2 weeks more than equalled all other such falls in England since the year 1800. [III; 1976.1, 1976.2. (Land and Water, October 23, 1869.)]

1869 Aug 25 / Field of Aug 28 / Margate "overwhelmed" by a new invasion. A wasp-like fly—two species. Tremendous numbers. "They are slow, stupid and hungry, and quite harmless." Another cor—"On Wednesday (25th) I went to Ramsgate by steamboat and as we approached within five or six miles of Margate, complaints of wasps began to be heard. I soon ascertained that they were no wasps but a bee-like fly. As we neared Margate, they increased to millions, and at Margate pier they were almost unendurable." He sent some specimens to the Editor, who identified 2 species of Syrphus. Someone else wrote that a swarm had appeared before this swarm at Forest Hill. he Editor ientified specimens as of one of the preceding and also of a third species of Syrphus. [III; 1977.1 to 1977.4. (Field, August 28, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Aug 24 / At Long Benton. "Immense swarms of small, white Pieris rapae. / Ent Mo. Mag 1869-171 / Thousands were killed by the gardeners. / his is the butterfly that had been so scarce. In Ent pubs, number of comments upon the scarcity of small white butterfly Pieris Rapae. In the Entomologist 1869-300, Edward Newman writes that up to July 12, he had seen only 3 specimens. Pp 313-315, half a dozen cors confirm this. [III; 1978.1, 1978.2. Bold, T.J. "Great abundance of Pieris rapae." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 6 (December 1869): 171. Newman, Edward."Scarcity of White Butterflies." Entomologist, 4 (August 1869): 300. Stowell, Hugh A. "Scarcity of White Butterflies in Derbyshire." Entomologist, 4 (September 1869): 313-314. Cox, H. Ramsay. "Scarcity of White Butterflies in the New Forest." Entomologist, 4 (September 1869): 314. Lock, G. "Scarcity of White Butterflies at Newport, Mon."Entomologist, 4 (September 1869): 314. Watkins, C.J. "Scarcity of White Butterflies in Glouchestershire." Entomologist, 4 (September 1869): 314.Clifford, J.R.S. "Scarcity of White Butterflies, &c., near London." Entomologist, 4 (September 1869): 314-315.]

1869 Aug 21 / Times of / Writer mentions scarcity of white butterflies and wonders how to account for it. [III; 1979. "The Great Flight of Ladybirds." London Times, August 21, 1869, p. 5 c. 2.]

1869 Aug / Thrips / Longbenton / 3 miles from Newcastle / Wingham in E. Kent. 6 miles E of Canterbury / ab 6 miles from Coast / less than 10 from Ramsgate. [III; 1980. (Refs???)]

1869 Aug 24 / Walton-on-the-Naze—"a countless swarm of Syrphi. / Entomologist 5-15 / 7 species. [III; 1981. "Swarms of Coccinellæ and Syrphi." Entomologist, 5 (January 1870); 15-16.]

1869 / summer / Can't say all cases invasions craneflies may been prevalence. [III; 1982.]

1869 May / 2 uncommon bats killed near Torquay—of different species—one across wings 13½ inches. / Zoologist 1869-1768. [III; 1983. Hügel, A. de. "Rare Bats at Torquay." Zoologist, s. 2 v. 4 (1869): 1768.]

1869 June 1 / At Windsor Great Park, cor to the Field, June 5, came upon a bird of "huge dimensions" inknown to him: legs and beak black; rest white. Cor asks if could have been a stork. Editor says most probably was a stork. [III; 1984. (Field, June 5, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 July 24 / Ab. 13 miles off the Lincolnshire Coast, belts of water, some a few yards, some hundreds of yards wide, a "thick pea-soup appearance" with Aphides. / Zoologist 1869-p. 1839. [III; 1985. Cordeaux, John. "Aphides seen at Sea." Zoologist, s. 2 v. 4 (1869): 1839.]

1869 June / Minley, in Hampshire / Found on a dusty road a Rhynchophorous beetle of species and genus new to listed British beetles. / Ent. Mo. Mag 1869-86. [III; 1986. Black, F. Alfred. "Occurrence in Britain of Lepyrus binotatus, a genus and species new to our lists." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 6 (September 1869): 86.]

1869 June 15 / Insects / Cor to The Naturalist's Notebook, 1869-318, caught at Norwich an unknown moth—"quite different to any figured or described in Mr. Newman's History of the British Moths." Forewings 1¼ inches from tip to tip—prevaiing color orange—whitish lines. [III; 1987. Laddiman, R. "What Is It?" Naturalist's Note Book, 3 (1869): 317.]

1869 June / Aberdeenshire / A beetle new to British lists of Coleoptra. Said be rather common in Lapland, the Alps, the Caucasus. / Ent. Mo Mag., Feb., 1870. [III; 1988. Hislop, Robert. "Occurrence in Aberdeenshire of Amara Quenseli, Schön.; a species new to the British list of Coleoptera." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 6 (February 1870): 212-213.]

1869 July 31 / Field of / Scarcity of white butterflies commented upon by 2 cors. / and Aug 14. [III; 1989. (Field, July 31, 1869. Field, August 14, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 July / Scarcity of white butterflies noted in The Field. [III; 1990. (Field, 1869???)]

1869 / autumn / Butterfly rare in England / Deiopeia pulchella / 3 captures in England recorded / The Entomologist 25/153 / Quite rare. For instance, for years 1887-1891 inclusive, no known captures. [III; 1991. South, Richard. "Deiopeia Pulchella in England." Entomologist, 25 (July 1892): 152-155.]

1869 Aug 13 / See 1807. [III; 1992. See: 1807 Aug ?, (I; 207).]

1869 Aug. 13-17 / Ladybirds first reported in Times, of Aug 19-4-f, from Ramsgate and other places on Coast—covering people's clothes—men engaged to shovel them into sewers. On 15th in London—Westminster Abbey covered—came from the east on Channel—children in filling bags with them. 14th, 15th, 16th—multitudes on Coasts of Kent and Surrey—Point is feeble flight. Never have crossed the Channel, writer says—but as if from Calais—piers covered—red piers out in water—High up and looking like flakes of snow. Writer asks for insertion of his letter—if were seen to leave France—L.T., Sept 1—that on 30th, docks of Bristol and Bath covered. / See Aug., 1847. / Ill. London News, Aug. 21 / Daily News, 20th. [III; 1993.1, 1993.2, 1993.3. "Ladybirds." London Times, August 19, 1869, p. 4 c. 6. "Lady-Birds." London Times, August 28, 1869, p. 10 c. 6. "The Ladybird Visitation." London Times, September 1, 1869, p. 6 c. 3. "Country News." Illustrated London News, 55 (August 21, 1869): 175. (London Daily News, August 20, 1869; nothing found here.) See: 1847 Aug 9, (II; 1132), and, (1847 Aug; several notes).]

1869 Aug / L.B. / No findable record of an invasion since. [III; 1994.]

1869 Oct / Have Daily News. [III; 1995.]

1869 / l. birds / See July 24. / Aug 25 / Sept 7 (2) / Oct 2 and Oct. [III; 1996. See: 1869 July 24, (III; 1973, 1974, & 1985); (1869 Sept 7); 1869 Oct 2, (III; 2043); and (Oct).]

1869 / summer / And if anyone should ask why it is that only insects came / The animal. [III; 1997. See: 1869 / summer, (III; 1834).]

1869 Aug / Have N.Y. Trib. [III; 1998.]

1869 Aug 13 / Lead ap with 1848 and Syrps of Aug., 1864. [III; 1999. See: (1848, and 1864, Aug.).]

1869 Aug 13 / Begin by listing all up to Nov. 19. / lb's, too / Then l.b's specially. [III; 2000.]

1869 Aug 13 / Plan / The exotic insects of July 1st / The lbs and then they = exotic / Then the later ones. [III; 2001.]

1869 July 17 / LT of / Cor from Ashford, Kent writes that a firefly of southern Europe (Lampyris Italica) had been caught in his garden. / In 20th, appears a letter from a cor in Catherham, Surrey. "The enclosed specimen is one of many that have every evening for the past week, attracted by the lights, flown into my dining room. Having been in the tropics, I recognized my beautiful visitors which had been, so numerous were they, denounced as a nuisance. / July 21. Letter from another cor that on 24th of June he had, at Dover, 15 miles from Ashford, released 12 fireflies that he had brought in a bottle from Coblentz. / 12 fireflies from Coblentz seem to have nothing to do with a denounced numerousness

of tropical or sub-tropical fireflies. [III; 2002.1 to 2002.4. "Fireflies in Kent." London Times, July 17, 1869, p. 12 c. 4. "Fire-Flies in Surrey." London Times, July 20, 1869, p. 11 c. 1. "Fireflies in Kent." London Times, July 21, 1869, p. 11 c. 2. See: 1869 / middle of July, (III; 2057.3).]

1869 Sept. 8 / Myriads of ladybirds moving toward the Humber. / Zoologist. Nov. 1869. [III; 2003. Cordeaux, John. "The Last of the Ladybirds." Zoologist, s. 2 v. 4 (1869): 1922.]

1869 Aug 13 / BO / Story—astonishment—someone who had hung out a wash and went to see it loaded with l.bs. / Standard, Aug 23. [III; 2004. "The Flight of Ladybirds." London Evening Standard, August 23, 1869, p. 4 c. 3.]

1869 Aug 13 / BO / Standard, 23rd, said some nearly ½ inch long. [III; 2005. "The Flight of Ladybirds." London Evening Standard, August 23, 1869, p. 4 c. 3.]

1869 Aug 13 / "The majority were of large size and of a dull yellow hue, appeared languid and weak, either from long flight or abstinence from food." / The Student—4/160. [III; 2006. "Great Swarm of Lady-Birds." Student and Intellectual Observer, 4 (1870): 160.]

1869 Aug. / BO / Symons' Met Mag., Aug, 1869 / from Shiffnal / "scarcely a white butterfly seen, and only one wasps' nest found up to the 21st." [III; 2007. "Meteorological Notes on the Month." Symons's Meteorological Magazine, 4 (August 1869): 111-112, at 111.]

1869 Aug 12, etc. / BO / lb's "all yellow, with few exceptions". / Symons' Met Mag, Sept, 1869.  [III; 2008. "Meteorological Notes on the Month." Symons's Meteorological Magazine, 4 (September 1869): 126-128, at 126, cv. "Shiffnal."]

1869 Aug 13 / BO / Cor.,  Standard, Aug 23. Cor said that these unlike any others known to him. Had power of inflicting a sharp nip or bite. [III; 2009. "The Flight of Ladybirds." London Standard, August 23, 1869, p. 5 c. 7.]

1869 / BO / At Stonefield, Lincoln, appeared beetles that were well known (Scolytus destructus) but that had never been seen there before. / Field, Oct 16th. [III; 2010. (Field, October 16, 1869.)]

1869 Aug 13, 14 / "Countless millions of them at Ramsgate. / L.T., 19th. [III; 2011. "Ladybirds." London Times, August 19, 1869, p. 4 c. 6.]

[1869] / BO / 2 cors to Entomologist, Sept, 1869, note remarkable scarcity of another species, P. Brassicae. Oct issue, cor writes never before had seen so few beetles, and one upon almost utter absence of wasps and bees—one absence of moths. [III; 2012. Lock, G. "Scarcity of White Butterflies at Newport, Mon."Entomologist, 4 (September 1869): 314. Nix, Arthur P. "Occurrence of White Butterflies at Truro." Entomologist, 4 (September 1869): 315. Reeks, Henry. "White Butterflies, &c., at Thurston." Entomologist, 4 (October 1869.): 321-322. Fetherstonhaugh, S.R. "Scarcity if Butterflies in Ireland." Entomologist, 4 (October 1869): 322.]

1869 Aug 12 / 3 p.m.—on vessel between Norelight and Margate. Thousands of ladybirds alighted upon it, a number of white butterflies, and a host of small yellow flies with black marks across the backs. / London Morning Advertiser 31-5-5. [III; 2013. "The Ladybirds Advent." London Morning Advertiser, August 31, 1869, p. 5 c. 5.]

[1869] / ab. Aug 1 / BO / Aphides near Maidstone, in numbers so great that ac to cors, they darkened the sky. / Maidstone Journal, 23rd. [III; 2014. "The Hop Crop." Maidstone Journal, August 23, 1869, p. 4 c. 6.]

1869 / BO / Cor., Field, July 24—had seen only one hornet. [III; 2015. (Field, July 24 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 July 25 / BO / Weekly Dispatch of / Fireflies at Catherham. "They were so numerous a day or so since that people called them a nuisance." [III; 2016. (London Weekly Dispatch, July 25, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Sept 18 / Illustrated London News of / Craneflies / great numbers in St. John's-Wood. [III; 2017. "Metropolitan News." Illustrated London News, 55 (September 18, 1869): 278.]

1869 September / The blue cliffs of Happisburg, Norfolk, "completely tinted with red blotches of these insects (ladybirds), congregated together in millions, and apparently in a half-dormant state." / The Field, Nov 4, 1871. [III; 2018. Hockley, Thomas. "Ladybirds." Field, November 4, 1871, p. 398.]

1869 Sept 4 / A locust at Queensbury, Halifax. / The Entomologist 1870-58. [III; 2019. "Locust near Halifax." Entomologist, 5 (April 1870): 58.]

1869 Sept 17 / Cor writing on, says craneflies at Hackney, Wick, vast numbers of them. On grass clustered on places in masses several inches thick. On doorsteps and pavements so looked as if covered with mud. Great numbers destroyed by boiling water thrown on them. Said that the year before, their larvae had destroyed grass. Sc. Op. 2-342. [III; 2020. (Scientific Opinion, 2-342.)]

1869 Oct., early in / A locsut at Fairford, Gloucestershire. / The Field, Oct 23. [III; 2021. (Field, October 23, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Oct / Locust caught in Pembrokeshire near St. David's Head. / Sci Op (L) 2/456. [III; 2022. (Scientific Opinion 2-456.)]

1869 Oct. 9 / About 30 locusts take in Plymouth. / The Entomologist, Dec., 1869. Several at Truro—on 9th. [III; 2023. Nix, Arthur. "Locusts at Truro." Entomologist, 4 (December 1869): 367. Bignell, G.C. "Locusts in Devonshire and Cornwall." Entomologist, 4 (December 1869): 367-368.]

1869 Aug 30 / Ladybirds reach Bristol and Bath. [III; 2024. (Refs???)]

1869 Oct 9 / A naturalist quoted upon the flight of locusts at Plymouth. He was not sure as to the species. / Western Daily Mercury—15-2-6. [III; 2025. (Western Daily Mercury, October 15, 1869, p. 2. c. 6; not at BNA; possibly @ Gale or Newsbank, on microfilm @ Plymouth Central Library.)]

1869 Oct / Locusts / large quantities of them reported from Balmoral, Scotland. / Entomologist 5-58. [III; 2026. Angus, W.C. "Locusts in Aberdeenshire." Entomologist, 5 (April 1870): 58.]

1869 Aug / fireflies / aphides / lbs /Syrps / Thrips / locusts / spiders / and odd lots / the animal. [III; 2027.]

1869 Oct 9 / Fine specimen of locust 3 inches long and wings measuring four was caught at St. Austell. / Western Daily Mercury (Plymouth) 14-3-4. [III; 2028. (Western Daily Mercury, October 14, 1869, p. 3 c. 4; not at BNA.)]

1869 Oct 10 / (+) / (W) / A locust at Waterford. Like local explanation at Burton. Said that near where it was caught were anchored foreign grain vessels. No doubt the locust had come in one of these. / Standard 16-3-7/ This idea disagreed with by cor of 19th, because he had caught one in Staveley, Derbyshire. [III; 2029.1, 2029.2. "A Locust in Waterford." London Standard, October 16, 1869, p. 3 c. 7. Rowlands, D.G. "Locusts." London Standard, October 19, 1869, p. 2 c. 5.]

[III; 2030. Pabst: "Void—due to T.T. typo, The Fortean, #55, p. 456 c. 1." See: 1869 Oct 10, (III; 2029), as "III; 2029.2."]

1869 Sept 1-30 / Oct 1-31 / Have Standard. [III; 2031.]

1869 / ab. Aug 10 / Extraordinary plague of aphides on Essex coast. / Maidstone Telegraph, Aug 28. [III; 2032. "The Great Flight of Ladybirds." Maidstone Telegraph, August 28, 1869, p. 7 c. 3. "The Great Flight of Ladybirds." London Times, August 21, 1869, p. 5 c. 2.]

[1869 Aug 7. Wrong date. See: 1869 July 31, (III; 2033).]

1869 Aug 13 / Aphides and locusts / July 5, 1921. [III; 2034. See: 1921 July 5, (X; 1375).]

1869 Aug 13 / At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, Nov. 15, the entomologists solved the problem by deciding that there had been no migration of ladybirds, because their larvae had been extremely abundant a short time before the appearance of the swarms. / Ent Mo. Mag, Jan., 1870. [III; 2035.1, 2035.2. "Entomological Society of London, 15th November, 1869." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 6 (January 1870): 193-194, at 194. "November 15, 1869." Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 17 (1869): 24-27, at 26, (xxvi).]

1869 / last of August / Wasps and flies "in overwhelming number" at Southampton. / Gardeners' Chronicle, Sept 4 / p. 945. [III; 2036. "Lady-birds." Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1869 no. 26 (September 4): 945.]

1869 (July 25) / A dense column of aphides in such numbers as to give off a rank odor. / (Gardeners' Chronicle, July 31.) / Writer knew of about 10 square miles so covered. Seemed to come in huge waves at times so dense as to make his breathing difficult, all falling to the earth. He called it a "fly storm". / This at Bury St Edmunds. In issue Aug 7th, a cor says seems impossible to think it was the same invasion but this day equally thick at Chelmsford. [III; 2037.1, 2037.2. "A New Invasion." Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1869 (July 31): 817. "The New Invasion." Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1869 (August 7): 842.]

1869 Aug 15 / Ants / A large flight of winged ants at Maidstone. / D. News. 25-7-4 / D News 28-6-6 / Cor writes that multitudes at Farnham. He seems to think were of local origin but thinks it curious that at same time a swarm in Kent. [III; 2038. "Invasion of the Hop-Fields." London Daily News, August 25, 1869, p. 7 c. 4. "Ladybirds and Ants." London Daily News, August 28, 1869, p. 6 c. 6.]

1869 Aug / BO / Astronomer T.W. Webb, Nature 2-298 , tells of numerous bees, at Hardwick, of a kind unknown to him, having tufts of yellow hairs on the head. [III; 2039. Webb, Thomas William. "Entomological Inquiries, etc." Nature, 2 (August 11, 1870): 297-298.]

1869 Aug / Sci Gos, 1870-141 / Cor writes of strange bees that had been described to him, each with a tuft of short yellow hair between the eyes—not pollen. There were other differences, slight, almost doubtful. [III; 2040. "Strange Bees." Science Gossip, 6 (no. 66; June 1, 1870): 141. "At first it was thought that this peculiarity was due to the insect having inserted its head among the pollen of some flower; but when the same mark was detected in a number of individuals, it became evident that these could not be Hive Bees, but of an entirely distinct species." Holland, Robert. "Strange Bees." Science Gossip, 6 (no. 67; July 1, 1870): 161. Holland suggests the same "strange bees," that he had also noticed, were actually thus colored by the pollen of the yellow broom's flower, (Cytisus scoparius).]

1869 / BO / Strange bees told of by cor A.W. described by a relation of his. [III; 2041. See: 1869 Aug, (III; 2040).]

1869 / About 20 hummingbird moths seen in July in Wales. / Field, Aug 21, 1869. Many that were seen by a cor to Field, Nov 20, p. 433-col 1-+. [III; 2042. (Field, August 21, 1869, p. 433; not at BNA.)]

1869 Oct 2 / BO / Cor to Sci Gossip, 1869-273, says that near Conway, with a sudden rise in temperature came a flock of Humming-bird Hawkmoths and several species of butterflies—"a wonderful sight." [III; 2043. Holland, Robert. "Remarkable Flight of Moths and Butterflies." Science Gossip, 5 (no. 60; December 1, 1869): 273.]

1869 Aug 13 / Accompanied by wasps at Ramsgate. / D. Telegraph, 18th. [III; 2044. "Strange Flight of Insects at Ramsgate." London Daily Telegraph and Courier, August 18, 1869, p. 3 c. 2.]

1869 Aug 13 . Mr. J. Jenner Weir / Fellow of Ent Soc., Zoo. Soc and Linnean Soc. / Nature 49-538. [III; 2045. "Notes." Nature, 49 (April 5, 1894): 538-542, at 538.]

1869 / ab Aug 1 / Aphides / Coast of Essex / Invasion of aphides. "So enormous were they in numbers, that correspondents described their flight as having darkened the air." / Daily News, Aug 25-7-4, quoting Maidstone Journal. [III; 2046. "Invasion of the Hop-Fields." London Daily News, August 25, 1869, p. 7 c. 4. "The Hop Crop." Maidstone Journal, August 23, 1869, p. 4 c. 6 & p. 5 c. 1.]

1869 Aug 13 / before the lb's came / "In several districts of the Eastern Counties, aphides swarmed to such an extent as to darken the air for days together and render it almost dangerous to the eyesight both of man and animals to be out of doors. / The Gardener's Magazine, Aug 28-1-1. [III; 2047.1, 2047.2. (Gardener's Magazine, August 28, 1869, p. 1 c. 1.)]

1869 Aug. 13 / Kent Coast Times, Aug 19, said that in parts of Ramsgate the sky darkened with them. No explanation attempted. [III; 2048. (Kent Coast Times; not online.) See: 1869 / ab Aug 1, (III; 2046).]

1869 Aug 13 / In Gardener's Magazine, Aug 28, said that in the Eastern Counties the ruin of hop gardens was expected, because of the swarms of aphides, when the lb's appeared. [III; 2049. (Gardener's Magazine, August 28, 1869.)]

1869 Aug 15 / BO / Large flight of winged ants at Maidstone. / Maidstone Journal, 23rd. [III; 2050. "The Hop Crop." Maidstone Journal, August 23, 1869, p. 4 c. 6 & p. 5 c. 1.]

1869 Aug 13 / BO / Inverness Courier, Sept 2, copying from London Telegraph—"That they are foreigners, nobody doubts. They are nearly twice the size of the common English ladybird, and are of a paler colour." / In BO—sum up with this. [III; 2051. "The Ladybirds." Inverness Courier, September 2, 1869. p. 7 c. 3. "The ladybirds have come to town...." London Daily Telegraph and Courier, August 26, 1869, p. 5 c. 3.]

1869 Aug. / plan / Wave after wave of lb's. 3 if Brighton of 22nd was one. / By description the 2nd wave was foreign. / It was an unfavorable year of abundance of insects in England. / Syrphs in wave after wave with the lbs and independently. / Suggestion that from Africa (no records between Africa and England). / Insects of feeble flight could not have flown across the Channel. Couldn't fly across a cistern without a toll of hundreds—could have wafted, been carried across space not water. / Insects and rises of temperature and tropical insects. / Like the meteors, spiders and lb's have their dates, if activity in X they great. [III; 2052.1, 2052.2, 2052.3.]

1869 Aug 22 / At Brighton—seem to have come from the sea. "The pier was completely covered with them. / Brighton Daily News, 25th—said that several varieties were noted. [III; 2053. (Brighton Daily News, August 25, 1869; not @ BNA.)]

1869 Aug 22 / LB's at Brighton covered the roads "at every turning from the sea". / The Field, Aug 28. [III; 2054. (Field, August 28, 1869; not at BNA.)]

1869 Sept 4 / Ill London News of / The ladybirds of Bristol and Bath may have come from the sea. I. L. News says these places and "the new dock-works in progress at Avonmouth have been thickly studded with the insects." [III; 2055. "Country News." Illustrated London News, 55 (September 4, 1869): 227.]

1869 / autumn / New Plant / Field, Feb. 26 / Edward Newman, Editor of the Entomologist, writes that growing in a brickyard at Highbury, Middlesex, had been discovered a plant "entirely new to Britain", Cotula cornopifolia, covering a large patch of ground, growing most luxuriantly, and flowering abundantly. He can think of no way by which appeared there. It was known upon the Continent, supposed to have been introduced from the southern hemisphere. [III; 2056.1, 2056.2. Newman, Edward. "An Unexpected Visitor." Field, February 26, 1870, p. 189.]

[Thayer: "That is the end of Fort's string-tied bundle," (which begins with "1869 / summer, (III; 1856.)]