2021 August 24

    Jeff Gaskin writes:  I found a rather worn Satyr Comma along the Lochside Trail about half way along south of the bridge at Blenkinsop Lake , yesterday August 23.

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This is a good place to find the species – earlier in the year caterpillars are to be found in the nettles at the side of the trail.  Unfortunately,  it has been very dry this year, with heavy bicycle traffic (including electric motorbikes – that’s what they are and should be called), and all the vegetation at the sides of the trail are heavily covered in dust and grit.  The commas spend the winter in the adult state, and reappear in spring, when, with luck, they may find a good crop of clean, fresh nettles to lay their eggs on.