One hundred a night

Had the first night last night (17th June) at the Old Vic with 100 species of moth (about the same number of species I had between January and May). 207 individual moths with the most numerous species being Scarlet Tiger (9), Dark Arches (9), Garden Grass Veneer (10), Heart and Dart and Heart and Club (8 each), so lots of diversity but with relative low abundance. 

Irecord is registering that we've had 600 moth species here for the site now but that is probably due to having some entries at the genus level only. Moth year list is 245 species.

Pretty quiet on the bird front- no sign of any tit flocks yet and there are very few Great Tits about- as I suggested before I suspect bird flu might be taking a hidden toll. Kestrel has been pretty regular recently. 

Also been a few developments in the mini-zoo (see below) including getting a bit of shock when what appeared to be a new species suddenly appeared in the invertebrate tank. 

The geese eggs which are incubating go into the final week and incubator lockdown tomorrow. 

Male Kestrel

Not sure on this either a Dark Brocade or a dark Clouded Brindle . Yes it's a Clouded Brindle (thanks Dave!) 

Blue-bordered Carpet- NFY

Cyclamen Tortrix- NFY

Currant Clearwing- up to 7 attracted to lure

I think this is Ermine Knot-horn, Phycitodes binaevella rather than the smaller martima/saxicola

Ash bud moth - NFY

I had three of these all in the same state of wear- not sure what they are, the closest I can think is worn Small Clouded Brindles

Maybe a worn Clancy's Rustic or as suggested by Dave, just a Pale Mottled Willow 

A Bucculatrix sp ? with a Yellow Oak Button 

Closest I can get to this is the rather rare Elegia similella

Triangle Plume I believe

Burdoch Neb

Small Dotted Buff

The Knot-horns are beginning to appear more frequently now- not sure on this one, maybe consociella or oblitella

The Ghost Mantis in the invertebrate tank have completed their final moults and the male is looking completely different (above) which gave me a bit of shock this morning. Female below- the two looked almost identical a couple of days ago.

One of our Spiky Stick Insects

The Malaysian Forest Scorpion must be totally nocturnal as I've never seen it out during the day and always hides under the cork in the invertebrate tank 

Tiger Cranefly, Nephrotoma flavescens- common at the moment in the garden   

Some of the Clove corals are beginning to self propagate in the reef tank