We have had several members of the family visiting recently and both young and old made interesting finds. On the shore near home we identified Anurida maritima, seashore springtail – a common enough species but never recorded on Raasay before. There were also some tiny crustaceans, probably copepods, but that is as far as I am going.
On the way to Inbhir we captured Argyresthia brockeella, sometimes called Gold-ribbon Argent, a micromoth with few records in the vice-county. Meanwhile, a moth trap at home produced Birch Mocha, another locally uncommon moth and a first for the home list.
The Inbhir trip also yielded, amongst other things, the large beetle Carabus glabratus and galls on Aspen caused by the mite Phyllocoptes populi.
A good time was had by all.
Tags: Galls, Insects, Moths, Plants, Sea Creatures
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles 
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