Here are some things to look out for on cuckoo flower:
Orange-tip eggs - just under the fowers on the flower stems.
Adela rufimtrella - a long horned micro moth that feeds on cuckoo flower and garlic Mustard (in the same way orange-tips do). you will see them occassionally on the cuckoo flower flowers. Flying now.
Micropterix calthella - tiny micro on buttercups and cuckoo flower. Shiny wings, yellow head
I would be especially pleased for some rufimtrella records as I have no Ayrshire records and it must be present. calthella has been recorded, but with no specific records as yet.
See www.ukmoths.org.uk for pictures.
Neil Gregory
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