Author Archives: Mary Atkinson

MAGPIE MOTH  This is a very distinctive moth with black and a few yellow spots on a white background. It has a single generation in the summer and will come to light or can be seen resting flat on foliage during the day. It’s about the size of a Gatekeeper. Its larval foodplants are many […]

Nightjarring Perhaps it was my new hearing aids, or were the nightjars particularly vocal the other evening? Last Thursday was a suitable evening and we met a friend who had never heard them; a few LAPWG members also turned up. We kept an acceptable distance apart as we strolled up the track at the local […]