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Last Update: Saturday, May 1, 2021 - 23:37
I sent 19 specimens from VC104 and two from VC105 to David McCosh who has found them to be of ten different species, though one needs checking.
Hieracium subcrinellum (previously H. crinellum) (Blunt...
Further to my recent note, I have found another recent publication which sets out the authors’ views on the broad taxonomic relationships of the 500,000+ green plant species based on molecular...
Today Skye Nature Group spent a few hours in Bernisdale Woods. We hope to have found a rare or at least seriously under-recorded woodlouse – but this requires close examination of a male, which...
On Tuesday I set out to explore an area of the Red Cuillin that was new to me, south of Glamaig. It turned out to be a useful day with a new 10km square record for Empetrum nigrum subsp....
As an inquiring field biologist, it would be difficult not to have an interest in taxonomy and evolution, though for some this may not extend far beyond their immediate speciality – such as plants....
While I was away for three weeks, Skye Nature Group went to Trumpan and Halistra Loch. It was apparently a very wet day but in Halistra Loch they managed to re-find four species that had not been...
I am about to head south for three weeks so there may be rather few posts here for a bit. This morning I toured parts of mid- and North Skye to check on Martin’s Acaena anserinifolia (Bronze...
Paul Green, who last year kindly agreed to referee Agrimonia following my issues with it says “I reckon here in Ireland Agrimonia eupatoria is over-recorded for Agrimonia procera …...
Look what Ali next door brought home on his car (it hadn’t been off-island):
Convolvuus Hawk-moth
This is a big beast. There have been several in moth traps on Skye in the past couple of weeks.
The daughter is performing in Portree on Tuesday:
