First known record of Cotula alpina in Scotland, Wester Ross: V.C.105

摘要

Discovery - On the 8th August 2009, while on a summer holiday at Lochinver, my friend Gwen Richards, my son, Calium, and I set off south down the exceedingly twisty 'Wee Mad Road' that terminates at Achiltibuie, on a somewhat overcast, but warm day. We had two objectives in mind; the first being to go on a boat trip round the Summer Isles and see terns, and the second to search two sites where there had been earlier reports of Marsh Fritillary webs. We searched the meadows in Polbain, but found verylittle Devil's-bit Scabious, the food plant of this butterfly.