Blog Entries from Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
HBRG (
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Saturday saw the spring meeting of Highland Biological Recording Group. This is the organisation’s 40th year. There were some excellent talks, mostly on insects, plus an update on the new website and…
Uncertainties (
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This rove beetle was on the outside of the house: I was hoping that it would be Philonthus cognatus with its distinctive yellow on the underside of the first segments of the antennae, but no. I…
Yesterday, I found this small weevil on Common Nettle (Urtica dioica) in the garden: There are only two records of this for VC104 on NBN, one of them from my garden on nettles nearly three years ago…
Plant News (
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Joanna tells me that the SBG outing to Canna added Ophioglossum vulgatum (Adder’s-tongue) to the Canna list. Neil has spotted three spikes of Neottia nidus-avis (Bird’s-nest Orchid) near Portree from…
