Ducks in a Row

The Glasgow Naturalist 28 part 1

Edited by: Iain Wilkie & Chris McInerny

CONTENTS

Editorial

Urban natural history I.C. Wilkie

Full Papers

Update on incidences of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in Scottish freshwaters
J. Krokowski [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28102]
The Blodwen Lloyd Binns Bequest: three decades of major positive impacts on Glasgow Natural History Society
J.R. Downie, R.B. Weddle, S. Futter & B.K. Mable [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28122]
The molluscs of the Duddingston Loch area, Edinburgh, Scotland: comparison of the present with the 19th and 20th centuries A.T. Sumner [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28117]

Short Notes

Recent records of the box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae,
Spilomelinae) from the Greater Glasgow area, Scotland
R. Sutcliffe [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28101]
Water voles as prey for grey herons in an urban environment E. Reid, K. Morrison, C. Scott & D.J. McCafferty [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28103]
Cryptachaea blattea (Arachnida: Araneae): a second confirmed record for Scotland and first for Glasgow
C. McEwan [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28105]
Annual numbers of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and anadromous brown sea trout (S. trutta) leaping at the Pots of Gartness, Loch Lomond, Scotland C.J. McInerny [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28126]
Professor J.H. Connell (1923−2020)at Millport, Isle of Cumbrae,Scotland
P.G. Moore [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28127]
A mass stranding of buoy barnacles, Dosima fascicularis, on the Isles of Coll and Colonsay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, in July 2020 M. O’Reilly, A. Morris & J. McKechnie [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28108]
The non-native scarlet berry truffle Paurocotylis pila in King’s Park, Glasgow, Scotland M. O’Reilly & E. Taylor [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28113]
Recent speckled wood (Pararge aegeria) butterfly observations in Lanarkshire (VC77), Scotland
T. Stewart [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28116]
Records of the 18-spot ladybird Myrrha octodecimguttata (L., 1758) in an Aberdeen garden, Scotland
N.A. Littlewood & A.G. Knox [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28121]
Large gulls feeding on fungi in a suburban garden in Glasgow, Scotland
A.P. Payne [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28128]

Supplement: Proceedings of the GNHS Brownfield Biodiversity Conference, 4th-5th June, 2022

Full Papers

Transforming Scotland’s urban landscape into wildlife havens: new Local Nature Reserves in South Lanarkshire, Scotland J. Birkin [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28110]
Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve, Glasgow, Scotland: a funder’s perspective
M. Faulkner [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28114]
The Glasgow Natural History Society Brownfield Biodiversity Conference, June 2022: origins, organisation, experience and proceedings
J.R. Downie, R.B. Weddle & S.N.K. van Mesdag [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28124]
Holmhills Wood Community Park Local Nature Reserve, Cambuslang, Scotland: biodiversity on the doorstep
A. Park [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28109]
Havoc Meadows and Brucehill Inland Cliff: a proposed Local Nature Reserve, Dumbarton, Scotland
Z. Weir & I. McLaren [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28118]
Malls Mire Community Woodland: restoring biodiversity on a brownfield site, a green infrastructure project in Glasgow, Scotland N. Digruber [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28120]
Invertebrates on the brownfields of Falkirk, Scotland S. Burgess [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28104]
Biological recording at Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve, Glasgow, Scotland
E. Plant & C. de Lima Hutchison [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28119]

Shorter Contributions

Brownfield Conference visits to Hamiltonhill Claypits and Malls Mire, Glasgow, Scotland 
R.B. Weddle & J.R. Downie [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn27413]
The impact of urbanisation on body condition and size in Bombus hypnorum and Bombus lucorum agg. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in urban (parkland and brownfield) and rural sites in the west of Scotland 
E. Plant [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28106]
Fernbrae Meadows Local Nature Reserve: biodiversity on a rewilded golf course in Glasgow, Scotland 
N. Digruber [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28111]
Anthropogenic biodiversity and geodiversity: investigating the potential for legacy anthropogenic substrate sites to help offset falling global biodiversity S.N.K. van Mesdag [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28123]
The Garnock Estuary and Ardeer Peninsula: Scotland’s first brownfield SSSI? 
B. Philp [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28125]
Open mosaic habitats on brownfield sites S. Burgess [https://doi.org/10.37208/tgn28107]

Book Reviews

Reviews

Obituary

Peter Meadows

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