Anyway the great insect conditions continue and also looks like things have picked up a bit on the migrant front. Temperatures up to 25 C but back down to the low 20 mark tomorrow. There were 111 species of about 300+ moths this morning which is reduction from about 150 species from earlier on in the week. Seems like prolonged heat conditions begin to have diminishing returns?
It's been a great week- after being a long way behind last year's moth tally for the same time, we've now more or less caught up thanks to the weather.
Marbled Grass Moth, Catoptria verellus- according to the Sussex Moth Group website only 10 previous county records. A new for garden, now on 670. Other potential migrant species included Four-spotted Footman, a few Rusty-dots, Diamond-backs, Rush Veneer and Silver Y and two Small Mottled Willow
Small Rivulet-a NFY, now on 358 for the year, so 16 new ones last night
Chamomile Straw
Oak Nycteoline- not a common moth round here and everyone is uniquely patterned
Plenty of Festoons recently- always a pleasure to see
Jacob helped out this morning processing the traps including the 5 Privet Hawkmoths
The juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker is still around
Did a bit more invert and plant recording today. Red-spotted Plant Bug (above) were feeding on the Ox-eye Daises. Now logged 308 species on the I-Nat garden project HERE
The back garden meadow is coming along well with Ox-eye daisy, Wild Carrot and Black Knapweed all beginning to become established. There were about 5-6 Meadow Browns this morning, Essex Skipper, Comma, a few Small Whites and a couple of Gatekeepers along the edges with Red Admiral about. An Emperor dragonfly was flying around and a Common Darter emerged from the pond.
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