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
four Mistle Thrush and single Fieldfare and Redwing, Oldany Farm (DAH) (26/02)
three birds (two adult, one 1st-winter) Loch Culag (Fiona Carter) (26/02)
two male birds, Loch na Claise (DAH) (26/02)
10 birds on grazing land, Balchladich (DAH) (26/02)
single adult bird, Lochan Fearna, Lagg (DAH) (26/02)
two animals feeding at the water line during low tide, Loch Kirkaig (Fiona Carter) (25/02)
two pairs on Loch Ruighean an Aitinn, Drumbeg (Ian Evans) (23/02)
one small clump flowering, south facing sheltered spot, Lochinver (DAH) (23/02)
