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 Dragonfly c 3.7 cm long |
Nature Notes from Skye
(and occasionally other places)
Mon 25 Jul 2005 Digg
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Dragonfly c 3.7 cm long |
A Swallow perches on a dead branch, and an Emerald Damselfly on a dead rush, at the edge of Loch Seunta. This loch has a superb range of waterside vegetation, but is completely devoid of aquatic plant life. I don't know if this is due to pollution of some kind. The other lochs nearby have plenty of water plants.
 Main leaf c 3.0 cm across at widest |
 Picture c 6.2 cm wide |
The fungus gall Melampsora caprearum on Grey Willow. Yesterday we had its relative Melampsora epitea which is not a gall-causer. The leaf to the right of the infected one has a mite gall which I think is Aculus laevis. The second picture shows a Primrose leaf with spots which I think may be a late state of Puccinia primulae but that is only a guess. These are from the wooded hill on the west side of Loch Seunta.
Two more galls. The leaf-roll of the sawfly Blennocampa phyllocolpa on Rosa sherardii, and the swellings made by the gall-midge Dasineura urticae on Nettle.
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