Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Upper Kello Water, 13th August 2023
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During the rather wet August we were lucky to get a breezy day with no rain in Upper Nithsdale. The visit was to a largely unrecorded area of the upper Kello Water north west of Kirkconnel. The Kellow Water is …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Wanlockhead – 28th July 2022
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Six of us met at the overflow car park at Wanlockhead to explore another section of hill ground with no previous records. The weather was overcast with little breeze and this made it a bit midgy in the valley bottoms. …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Wanlockhead, 10th August 2024
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On a dry fine day eight of us met on the northern edge of Wanlockhead. We aimed to record in two squares along the Southern Upland Way down the valley of the Wanlock Water which runs north to meet the …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Wanlockhead, 14th July 2019
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In the week that we were all celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landings the group set off to do their own little bit of moon exploration. The weather was not great as we walked across the moorland around …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Warb Law, 17th May 2025
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A small group of four met on a warm day at the bottom of the track up to the Warb Law transmitter. While Warb Law is not very high at 275m it is part of the complex of steep hills …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group in Moffatdale, 30th June 2019
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The group met where the Spoon Burn goes under the A708 between Moffat and Selkirk. The square for the day includes the Moffat Water Valley and the steep slope down which the Spoon Burn has cut a deep Linn. We …
Events programme for Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group published
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The Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group have published their planned events programme for 2019. The programme commences in late March with a visit to Grey Mare’s Tail (Galloway Forest Park) and will continue throughout the year with visits to a range of …
False Blister beetles in Scotland
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by Bruce Philp, Apr 2019 I have had an interest in the Scottish Oedemera species (False blister beetles) for some time. Their relative distributions of the two main species found in Scotland are not clear with O. virescens being one …
Hoverfly ID course – anyone interested?
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We have recently been in touch with one of the organisers of the Hoverfly Recording Scheme (HRS) about the possibility of running a training course in SW Scotland on this under-recorded insect group. Hoverflies include some of the most striking …
Hunt for the Bog Bush-cricket
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The SWSEIC team took a morning excursion to Aucheninnes Moss in search of one of the regions rarest insects, the Bog Bush-cricket Metrioptera brachyptera, which is only found on two sites in Scotland. Both are within 1 mile of each other near Dalbeattie. …
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