A minor miner

Dull & drizzly today - so what's new!

We went down town to meet Daughter One off the Mull ferry. She's off to a conference, so with time to spare before her bus left we had lunch out and a look round a plant dyeing exhibition at the Rockfield Centre, then went for a walk in Dunollie Woods. 

As we used to do when she was a lot younger we set ourselves a test - to identify native plants along the way. They seemed to be about 98% celandine with a few foreigners such as montbretia thrown in, so we gave up after a while!

One thing we saw which I don't remember paying much attention to before was the evidence of a leaf-miner on the bramble leaves. This is the work of the larva of Stigmella aurella, the blackberry leaf miner. The extra, not my photograph, is the adult moth. Quite artistic in its own way!