Dalgety Bay cetaceans added

On the 29th and 30th August there were Bottlenose Dolphins off the sailing club and on the 30th a Minke was spotted later the same morning. Neither is listed already - surprisingly, at least for the dolphins

Additions to the Cullaloe LNR list

A double handful of additions from Angus in July Erysiphe pisi on Meadow Vetchling + Red Clover lower carpark platform
Pleuroceras pseudoplatani Sycamore along road to lower
Podosphaera clandestine Hawthorn along track just after house
Taphrina crataegi Hawthorn along road down to lower
Uromyces trifolii White Clover, widespread
Adia cinerella road to lower
Minettia fasciata under sycamore leaves track to lower
Phaonia palpata along track to lower
Rhagoletis alternata rose along track after house
Cynips quercusfolii Oak lower carpark
Neuroterus numismalis Oak lower carpark
Wesmaelius nervosus car park

Protapion fulvipes new to Dalgety Bay

A deliberate search after sweeping it from White Clover at Kinghorn Loch. This one swept from Downing Point at the first time of asking.

Scallop Shell new to Dalgety Bay from Braefoot

Came to Lepiled at about midnight 18/07

Lithobius melanops new to Cullaloe LNR

Taking the reserve list to 2385, this one dropped from the standing dead Horse Chestnut at the reserve entrance

Cullaloe list booster

This week I discovered a new record source in the form of Bubo Pan-species Listing site. A contributor there had several Cullaloe LNR records which had not been included. I haven't quite finished going through this process but so far we're at 2367 species (see that page for details).

Since I broke through the 2500 at Dalgety Bay last year it only makes sense to turn my attention to rounding out the 2.5k At Cullaloe. Beetles especially are under-represented, and since the Beetles of GB & I is finally complete it would be rude not to concentrate on them.

This is what ten years of accretion looks like:

As can be seen from the second graph almost everything has hit a plateau since I turned my attention elsewhere and got fed up of removing Ticks! Given the mild winter so far I expect that only to be worse in 2025.

Eudonia angustea (Narrow-winged Grey)

 

A relatively coastal species, and one I've been waiting for for a long time. Fairly mild overnight at about 13 degrees. Accompanied by Satellite, Black Rustic, Copper Underwing, Common Marbled Carpet and Light Brown Apple Moth