I went to Glasgow for elder daughter's final year show, interior design. Louise had found a very nice flat for us to stay in, which made being in the city quite relaxing for a change and I had a fair bit of time to work on sorting out some of my data and photos, not being interested in going to the shops.
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| https://gsashowcase.net/mollie-forsyth/#wanderlust |
The show was suitably impressive and we had the opportunity to see M's friends' work as well as her own. We also had a bit of time to go around some of the other departments, the fine art and photography was especially interesting with a very wide interpretation of fine art, well, art, to be honest.
These knitted slugs and other creatures were good fun, the result of a community involvement project (Sculpture and Environmental Art).
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| Artist - Kitty Glover. |
Anyway, on Thursday, I did take a wander around the Botanic Gardens where I found this ant in the Palm House.
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| I think this is a |
This would have been new for Scotland, if I've got it right, except that an ecological consultancy did a bit of work in the glass houses back in February and also found it, they haven't got it to species yet either.
In Kelvingrove Park I found two species that were certainly new to me, one new due to prior laziness regarding identifying bumblebees.
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| Bombus pratorum, Early Bumblebee, not found on Orkney. |
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| Note the darkened antnnal segement. |
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| Psila fimetaria (thanks IA for confirming the ID). |
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| Phymatocera aterrima, Solomon's Seal Sawfly (thanks JS for ID help). |
I think I've seen larvae of the sawfly in the past, I must check back.
We got home to a Cuckoo still on territory, Sedge Warblers singing and this morning a 2cy Little Gull on Loch of Bosquoy, hawking insects with the Black-headed Gulls. Little Gulls like buses, not doubt there'll be more now.
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