• Marc Calhoun: Texa - 2026
  • Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles: Last Post for a While (Probably) – Supplementary
    A couple of last-minute finds before the break – a bug from the garden on nettles: This may be common throughout the British Isles but there is only one record (by Stephen Moran) on Skye and none for Raasay on NBN. (We are not short of nettles.) Secondly, Tom spotted an Elephant Hawk-moth larva at…
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  • Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles: Last Post for a While (Probably)
    I have added two more moths to my home list, one from the trap and one found dead in the house. This is Phaulernis fulviguttella (Yellow-spotted Drab), found dead on a windowsill: There are only three previous records in the vice-county and it is on the Nationally Scarce B list. This is Light…
  • Its Mo's Blog: Life Under The Cloud
    My aim with the young tomato plants my sis-in-law gave me, was to keep them alive. It was possibly a little late in the season to have any hope of red tomatoes by the end of it, but non foosty plants, and green living matter seemed a worthy exercise and would encourage me to get them started in a…