June-July, 2010 - Cinnabar

Before 2010, the only record of Cinnabar in vice counties 86, 87 and 99 was of an adult caught in 1969 in the Rothamsted trap sited in oak woods at Rowardennan on Loch Lomondside. It was assumed to have been a wanderer. In 2010 however larval records came from near the western and the eastern extremes of the region. Andrew Stephenson found about 50 larvae on Ragwort on an industrial site near Larbert, Stirlingshire on 22^nd June and Stan Campbell found four larvae on ragwort beside the River Leven, near Renton, Dunbartonshire on 20^th July. Most remarkably, and not far from the Loch Lomondside 1969 record, another wandering adult was found in June by William Lindsay on the path to Ptarmigan high on the slopes of Ben Lomond.