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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 33.] 1914 [September 



EDITORIAL. 



In a time like the present, when travelling facilities are 

 limited, it behoves the naturalist to consider whether good 

 work cannot be done at home. In this connection a 

 singularly appropriate paper (published, curiously enough, 

 before the war broke out) appears from the facile pen of 

 Claude Morley, 1 under the title of " Garden Notes." One of 

 the objects of this very interesting paper is to show what 

 can be done by careful observation in one's own garden, or 

 in a small spot close to one's own dwelling. A variety of 

 subjects is dealt with in the article, which is to be continued 

 in a future issue. An Empid fly preying upon a Hymen- 

 opterous parasite reversing the usual order of things 

 the painful bite of open-air bugs or Hemiptera, the aerial 

 dancing of flies, weevils devouring ivy leaves, the habits of 

 an Ichneumon, and the attacks of a pugnacious Dolichopodid 

 fly are all described in this first instalment, and indicate in 

 telling fashion what can be done by keeping one's eyes open. 

 Why worry if continental trips are cut off when so much can 

 be done by staying at home (in the most literal sense)? 

 Only this month, while enjoying a quiet holiday in York- 

 shire, we took in the garden two specimens of a fly which 



1 Entomologist, August 19 14, pp. 215-218. 



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