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Field notes, Myron Swenk, 1911, June-Sept.

Item

identifier/filename
371-00010
title
Field notes, Myron Swenk, 1911, June-Sept.
description
Typescript field notes, pages 10, Myron Swenk bird observations on trip to Halsey and Thomas Counties in Nebraska, along entries from Lincoln, Nebraska
Transcription
Returned to Lincoln at 2:15 arriving that evening. Sept. 18 Examined York Nursery and found Shothole on cherry and plum Powdery Mildew on plum and apple Cedar Rust on wealthy apple Altermana fungus on poplar Aphis prunifoliae curling plum leaves A small striped torbucid on plum forming winter nests like the leaf crumpler and on the Wolf plum very abundant having nearly stripped the trees - Wyants nearby hardly affected. An Apatila larva abundant on both plum and apple - The yellownecked Datona and a blackstriped species abundant and had several trees stripped in spots. Wooly aphis said to be on nw. greening. In Select Nursery found Powdery Mildew on lilac Shothole on cherry A caterpillar on carolina poplar. Sept. 19 Examined Kearney Nursery. Very little stuff. Leafspot on gooseberry.
date
1911
source/RG#/MS#
MS 0371
isPartOf/Collection
Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
creator/photographer
Swenk, Myron Harmon, 1883-1941
rights
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publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
language
English
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