Dalgety Bay- plodding

Still plugging away at the square but feels like cycling uphill. I know because this morning I cycled uphill. You feel like you're getting there but not quickly! About 3 a day currently, which is more or less enough to get to 1200 by month end in as unspectacular a way imaginable.

I have managed two new for county species though, so quality over quantity perhaps - Viburnum Beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni, and Mydaea nebulosa are both unrecorded from VC85. The beetle is about the north of its range, though that seems to be moving. The fly seems very scattered in distribution and I couldn't discern anything about its preferences from the books.

The moth trap has had decent numbers of moths on warmer nights but mostly nothing new, and last night there were more flies than moths - single digits of both. Temperature must have dropped off a bit. Again nothing new although I did put something in a pot in a bleary-eyed just-woke-up sort of way and it may turn out to be an addition.

Canadian Goldenrod

Viburnum Beetle

Numbers:

1172		fungus	Pluteus cervinus	Deer Shield
1173		diptera	Eristalis horticola	A hover fly
1174		diptera	Cheilosia bergenstammi	Syrphidae
1175		lep-moth	Apamea lithoxylaea	Light Arches
1176		coleoptera	Pyrrhalta viburni	Viburnum Beetle
1177		flowering plant	Solidago canadensis	Canadian Goldenrod
1178		lep-moth	Pandemis heparana	Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix
1179		diptera	Mydaea nebulosa	A muscid fly
1180		fungus	Inocybe geophylla	A fibrecap mushroom