A visit to Hallaig on Raasay’s east coast yesterday with some of the family gave me these three records:
Black-spotted Longhorn Beetle Rhagium mordax
Sawfly: Strongylogaster...
More or less as soon as I said no more moth traps in June a dryish night allowed a final try and I caught 25 moths including two new to my June list and one of the group of Minors that need expert...
I have covered some of these in previous posts, but my West Suisnish (home and immediate environs) list for June has increased by seven, five of which are additions to the total list – which...
In Loch Groidean on Raasay, I spotted these holes in Nymphaea alba (White Water-lily) leaves.
Nymphaea alba (White Water-lily) leaves with added holes.
The only thing I can think of is the...
Two weeks have slipped by since I wrote anything here, but I have not been entirely idle. Nor have my botanical comrades.
On the plant front, Joanna has added Vicia sativa subsp. segetalis (Common...
At the eastern end of my visit to the Àird na Meacan area, the next tetrad looked tempting for a very old and vague record of Mertensia maritima (Oysterplant). Yesterday I went to have a look, but...
Doire Domhain is an abandoned township on the east side of the island that I hadn’t visited for quite a long time. I checked up on one of the island’s populations of Ophioglossum azoricum...
There were lots of ichneumonids around, perhaps all of one kind, but I had other fish to fry. Bugs featured largely, with the following six noted, two of which need expert help:
Elasmucha grisea...
Yesterday I went to Àird na Meacan near Kinloch on Skye. I was hoping to re-find two plants not recorded in the 10 km square NG71 since before 2000. In the event, I found four plants in that category...
I added 15 species of moth to the West Suisnish list for May of which two were completely new to the list: Least Black Arches and the micromoth Pammene rhediella (Fruitlet Mining Tortrix).
Least...