Aug 2010 to April 2011 - Pale Pinion

The Pale Pinion is moving north and, in my checklist I revealed how it had been found in several vice counties of central Scotland but not in vice counties 86, 87 and 99. However, in August and September 2010, Stan Campbell  proved that it has arrived in Dunbartonshire (vc99) when he sent me photographs of two that he found nectering in the Renton area. Moving into 2011, I added it to the Stirlingshire (vc86) list when I caught one in a trap at Mugdock Country Park on 10th April and another in Lennoxtown on 18th April. Note that the species emerges in the autumn, hibernates as an adult and re-emerges in the spring.