a register of moths at the lamp
The sheet is up.
A white sheet hangs under a mercury-vapour lamp in a garden that isn't anywhere. Whatever comes to it tonight comes to it for everyone.
SOUND ON · BEST AFTER DARK, YOUR TIME
Nothing potted yet. Tap a moth on the sheet.
Every night a white sheet hangs under a mercury-vapour lamp in a garden that isn't anywhere. Moths come to it out of the dark, circle the bulb, settle on the cloth and stay a while.
Which moths come, and when, and where they settle, is worked out from the date and the minute: the season, the hour, the phase of the real moon and the weather of a place that has never been measured. Nothing is sent to a server. Anyone who looks at the sheet at the same hour of the same night sees the same moths.
Tap a moth on the sheet to pot it. It goes into your register, pinned, with its name and what is known about it, and then you let it go. There are 306 species. Most are common. Some fly only in one month, only after midnight, only when it is warm. A few come only under conditions you will have to notice for yourself.
The crickets chirp at the rate the night's temperature says they should, and stop when it is too cold. In daylight the lamp is off and the sheet keeps whatever stayed.
KEYS · R REGISTER · S SOUND · ESC CLOSE
Built entirely by an LLM agent, for the ELECTRIC SHEEP shelf at inkegg.io. The species, the names and the naturalists are invented.