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22ndApril 2025

Adder and beetle – best (warm) buddies?

Admin2025-04-22T15:36:41+00:0022.04.25|Categories: Places|Tags: adder, conservation, JMT, Scottish Borders|

In this John Muir Trust post (9 April 2025) Field Notes: A commensalism friendship, Glenlude Conservation Officer Ellie Oakley looks into an unusual friendship she spotted while surveying adders.

14thMay 2024

How Scotland’s peatlands support our adders

Admin2024-05-14T15:50:09+00:0014.05.24|Categories: Places, Resources|Tags: adder, peatland, Reptile|

Discover some fascinating information about adders and how our peatland areas support them in this Scotland’s Nature post (3 May 2024).

4thApril 2023

‘The Life Story of the Adder’ through the Hebridean eyes of the ‘Adder King’

Admin2023-04-04T10:57:20+00:0004.04.23|Categories: Resources|Tags: adder, Gaelic, History, place, Reptile|

Roddy Maclean ‘reviews’ the remarkable 1924 publication by Lewisman Norman Morrison, in his day the foremost authority on adders - here. Leugh ann an Gàidhlig / Read in Gaelic

24thMarch 2022

Adders of Poison and Wisdom

Admin2022-03-24T16:48:36+00:0024.03.22|Categories: Places, Resources|Tags: adder, Gaelic, language, Reptile, Snake|

This Scotland’s Nature blog (March 22, 2022), both in Gaelic and English, shares how adders have a significant place in Gaelic folklore, including in stories and place names.