This small beetle turned up in a garden in Clachtoll. It was found by Ann Cook on 14th June 2011 and identified by Ian Evans.
It is about 1cm long. It is a beetle called Dascillus cervinus, in a family of its own. It goes by the common name of Orchid Beetle. it is not uncommon around here in the early summer, usually seen on flowers. The larvae eat roots. The adults are covered in ‘hair’, yellowish-brown in the females, of which this must be one
single bird heard calling, Clachtoll croft (AS) (25/05)
single club-horned sawfly on Torbreck croft (Corwin Yates). Photo Gallery - Other Insects. (25/05)
single bird at east end of Loch Assynt, circling and looking lost (Helen Morrison). The previous two days there had been south easterly gales, turning then into the west. (24/05)
four birds heard singing of which three were seen, Culkein Stoer (DAH) (21/05)
three birds in breeding plumage, Bay of Culkein (DAH). Photo Gallery - Birds (21/05)
four birds in spring plumage, Bay of Culkein (DAH). Photo Gallery - Birds (21/05)
50+ Bay of Culkein (DAH) (21/05)
single male briefly in Bay of Culkein (DAH) (21/05)
