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| Barred Carpet |
Two Barred Carpet caught on 3rd August in a trap placed above a damp wooded gully on the outskirts of Lennoxtown were the first known records for Stirlingshire, vc86 (politically East Dunbartonshire). The species is said to favour base-rich damp woods. The author has not identified any basic outcrops near the site and the vegetation is characteristic of acid woodland. However, the well known, fossil-rich, Hurlet limestone beds are in the area.
On the same day, a Barred Rivulet caught at Bardowie (vc86, Stirlingshire but politically East Dunbartonshire) was only the second record for the three vice counties since 1989 and the furthest from the Clyde and Forth estuaries of any known record. The main foodplant, Red Bartsia, is not uncommon on rough ground in the area.
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