Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi, found in a bedroom at my house Nedd on 27th March 2015. This spring-flying noctuid moth occurs in a range of shades of brown, with a conspicuous pale-edged oval and kidney-mark on the fore-wing. The adults feed on sallow catkins, which are just beginning to open, and the caterpillars on the leaves of oak, sallow and hazel in May and June. Although widespread further south, it is apparently scarce in the north of Scotland.
Ian Evans
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)
