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

Mothy Magick

A remarkable evening on Saturday night in the fog produced lots of migrants at Charles Hill. Most notable were four Convolvulus Hawk-moths that came barreling into the Lepiled.

Additional supporting cast:

2 Rush Veneer

1 Dark Sword-grass

23 Silver Y

21 Angle Shades

7 Setaceous Hebrew Characters

2 Autumnal Rustic

1 Turnip Moth

Harlequin Ladybird in Dalgety Bay

A Harlequin Ladybird yesterday was the first for Dalgety Bay. Not the most welcome of additions, as there seems to be a correlation between the appearance of these and the reduction in other ladybirds. Time will tell.

Jersey Cudweed in Dalgety Bay, flowering plant #422

After finding Jersey Cudweed new to Fife at Stenhouse a couple of weeks back it now seems it's also a pavement weed in Dalgety Bay. iRecord shows that it seems pretty well established in Edinburgh, already way in advance of the Atlas distribution

Charles Hill (reprise) Athripsodes albifrons

Athripsodes albifrons - a Caddis fly - also new to Dalgety Bay and scarce records from Fife though it seems to be a more-or-less ubiquitous species. There were other Caddis present, but this is the only one I caught. Probably there are a good number of species that could be added to the Bay list.

Charles Hill

East of Braefoot point, below Monk's Cave, I staked out the moths from 22:00 for a couple of hours, adding 4 species to the Bay total. This is what I consider to be the eastern limit of Dalgety Bay. It skirts Aberdour golf course, but Monk's Cave is in the Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay administrative area and it ain't Inverkeithing. Anyway it has lots of lovely calcicole plants and a nice coastal grassland/heath feel about it. Enough Rock Rose to host NBA too.

Lepiled and Braefoot terminal

More than met expectations with more Annulet, which I expected, but also Lobesia littoralis and Agonopterix nervosa, which I hadn't.

As a bonus, on the way out I saw a badger galumph across the road and into the undergrowth.

Annulet

A.nervosa

Lobesia littoralis

Edit - I forgot about this Least Yellow Underwing! The DBY list now stands at 2507