BEMNH Meeting 19-20 June 2004
A BEMNH meeting at Wood of Cree RSPB Reserve during 19th to 20th June 2004. Those present were Mark Telfer, James Cadbury, Nick Caraldish, C. B. Clements, Keith & Marilyn Naylor.
Mains of Cairnbrock Field Meeting 25-26 July 2014
The Grey Daggers local moth group carried out intensive trapping at this site in the North Rhins (NW96) to improve the count of macro moths for the forthcoming atlas. Two Skinners and a Heath trap were set in a valley…
New checklist of moths for Dumfries and Galloway
The second edition of the 'Checklist of Moths for Dumfries & Galloway' has been published in March 2014 and is available to download in pdf format. Inside this 2nd edition we have adopted the new taxonomic order and renumbering of…
2013 review
Highlight of the year was the finding of six Devon Carpets at Glassoch Farm, Wigtownshire, a new species for Scotland, and a further five records of Dingy Footman adding to the one in 2011, also, the only records for Scotland.…
Just like buses…
Twelve days after the previous first for Scotland, along comes another one. This time five Devon Carpets were trapped at Glassoch, Wigtownshire on 26th August 2013 during a recording day. An earlier record from Arran has been rejected on the…
First for Scotland
Local moth recorder Alison Robertson noticed a moth at the window at The Crichton, Dumfries, on the 14th August 2013, and found it to be an unfamiliar micro moth, so she took a photo and researched it. It looked very…
Updated moth recording spreadsheet for 2013
The County Moth Recorder and DGERC have updated the moth recording spreadsheet which is the preferred way to send in moth records. This includes some additions to lookup values and makes one or two other minor alterations. Using this spreadsheet…
2012 Highlights
During 2012 in Dumfries & Galloway we have had two new macro moths this year: Bordered Grey found in early September near Drummore, Wigtownshire, although three previous records are unacceptable, and, Cloaked Pug at Minnigaff in mid-July. Valerian Pug is…
New book on British Plume Moths
Anyone with an interest in Plume Moths in Britain will find this new book by Colin Hart to be the answer to resolving the identification problems beset by the group. The book also covers in full detail the biology, phenology…
New migrants for D&G
Anna White caught a migrant Crambidae from the tropics, 1404 Spoladea recurvalis on 1st October 2011 at Milton (VC73). The first for Britain was caught in Surrey on 5th September 1951, with the UK Moths web site stating a dozen occurrences in Britain by…