Blog Entries from Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
Plant Records (
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James has added Dryopteris affinis subsp. paleaceolobata (a Scaly Male-fern) to the vice-county list from a site at Dunvegan. Finley has found Acaena ovalifolia (Two-spined Acaena) near The Storr,…
There were plant records on this hill made in 2012, which for some reason I had doubted. I can’t remember why now, though I think it had to do with records made by the same recorder elsewhere that I…
I noticed that a couple of tetrads in NG42 in the northern and eastern parts of Glen Brittle Forest were rather low in taxa recorded post-1999 (NG42C: 86 and NG42D: 80). After a visit a couple of…
Not Tobacco (
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A few weeks ago a friend at Oscaig, here on Raasay, asked me f I knew what a large plant was in her garden as she had not planted it. I didn’t know. The large leaves made me think of tobacco, though…
July Plants (
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Bill has been on a visit to Skye chasing plants from my Rare Plants Register and sent around 350 records including new hectad records for Pilosella aurantiaca (Fox-and-cubs) in NG46 and Myrrhis…
Recent Moths (
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In the garden, on a nettle, I found this fine caterpillar – the Spectacle Moth. A trap last week caught 94 moths including two Swallowtail Moths, a species I have not had here before:
Continued…. (
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I thought it worth showing the underside of one of my Garden Tigers so that the reason for the name is apparent. (Don’t worry: it is only playing dead.) I went to inspect the Hybrid Black Poplar (…
Last night’s light trap attracted 19 moths of 12 different species. Nothing new for July in the garden, but some pretty things e.g: The trap also attracted a Brown Chafer (Serica brunnea), which I…
Change of Title (
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You may have noticed that I have changed the title of this blog from the increasingly inappropriate Plants…. to Nature Diary…. and I have put Raasay first as I am spending more time nearer home these…
Beetle Larva (
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I found this in the garden: It is very probably the larva of Phosphuga (previously Silpha) atrata which I have had in the garden and is common enough in this part of the world, but I am told that it’…
