Thank you to Alison Robertson who sent us these fabulous photos.
She and Chris Jackson spotted these two moths on Sunday afternoon between Glencaple and the Big Rock. Alison said that ‘Even on a short walk like this we nearly always see something interesting.’
‘The Barred Yellow
[main image] was sitting on a wild rose leaf, the Garden Tiger [below] on a stinging nettle (wild rose and stinging nettle being the foodplants of their respective caterpillars – though Garden Tiger caterpillars eat other plants as well).
There’s so much to see if we care to take a closer look, in our lovely Caerlaverock!
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