The temperatures are creeping up just as they did last June and no sign of any break in the next fortnight except for an outside chance of a shower at the weekend. Twenty-eight moths of eighteen species was again pretty poor but Toadflax Pug was NfG/T and Pammene fasciana was only the second.
A brief shop/library/pond outing of twenty minutes produced two Grey Herons disputing where to fish, a couple of fresh Commas and the odd Blue-tailed and Azure Damsels. A Southern Hawker was my first of the year and, a little further round, a Tree Bumblebee was intercepted on a leaf by Sicus ferrugineus - I don't know whether this Conopid is an endoparasite on bees and if so how specific its Bombus targets are.