Feathered Thorn

Blairs Shoulder Knot x 1

Red Green Carpet x 1

Garden Carpet x 1

Dark Sword Grass and LBAMoth.....last night...

Wasp Nest

Hi everyone first post since the exile returned from Wales :) A huge still active wasp nest found not far from the Alama Pub at Soyland

I will dig this out later in the year and see which of the various parasites of Wasps have taken residence. I had hoped to get out leaf mining and sugaring this week but the weather has put paid for that so far :(

last of the Butterflys....??

 

Think this may well be the last one of the year..23rd October 2020......and a Common Marbled Carpet on the window on the 25th ...

Lee Mount update

 Not  a lot since the last post on 18th Oct

3 different Yellow-line Quakers since then, November Moth agg peaked on 21st with 8.

Satellite x 2 on 20th, Tachystola acroxantha x 3, Silver Y x 1

Brick x 1 on 21st along with Angle Shades x 1, White-shouldered House-moth x 1, and Blastobasis lacticolella x 1, Mottled Umber x 1 and Feathered Thorn x 1.

Garden Carpet x 1 on 23rd

Red-green Carpet x 1 on 24th

Mottled Umber x 1 this morning (26th)

Rishworth - 19th October - Overnight Moths - NFGs!!!!!

 A great night, with 2 NFGs. Sorry this post is belated, TalkTalk decided to shut the whole Ryburn Ward's internet down yesterday.

Moth Trap 21st October:

Ypsolopha sequella x1 [NFG]

Autumn Green Carpet x1 [NFG]

Feathered Thorn x1 [NFY]

Angle Shades x2 [NFY]

November Moth Agg. x6

Yellow Line Quaker x4

Red Green Carpet x1

Chestnut x1

Sorry about the poor pictures, they were taken bleary-eyed at 5:30am on a Monday

Autumn Green Carpet, Rishworth, 19th October

Feathered Thorn, Rishworth, 19th October

Ypsolopha sequella, Rishworth, 19th October

Last few days

 A Red Admiral and Small White yesterday , in the trap Yellow Line Quaker , Blairs shoulder Knot x 2 ,LBAM and a Blastobasis ardustella....Also of note from Ian Hargreaves at Keighley Moor a December Moth last night...so not too far away......

Stainland. 20 Oct 2020 More Moths.

It was a much warmer evening last night as a result, at 11:00 p.m. last night, three more moths arrived. (The November Moth Agg. already reported, was discovered earlier today, at at 4:00 p.m.).

1 x Siver Y

1 x Light Brown Apple

1 x Common Marbled Gardem (Brown variety)

Stainland.

 I 've been tripped up twice with moths in the last couple of weeks, so I'm asking two quesions; 

1) Is the moth below, a Winter Moth? If so, it's another first for me.

2) How the devil do moths know what they look like, to enable the to chose the best camouflage surface near them? After all, they don't have little mirrors.  Er... they don't, do they?

 

Winter Moth. TBC.

Lee Mount - 18th October

From overnight and in and around the trap this morning

Garden Rose Tortrix x 1

Light-brown Apple-moth x 4

Common Marbled Carpet x 2 (one new one)

Feathered Thorn x 2 (one new one)

Acleris sparsana x 1

Angle Shades x 1

Satellite x 1

Spruce Carpet x 2

Red-green Carpet x 1

Mottled Umber x 1

Not sure of this (Common Marbled carpet ?) but thought it made a nice shot on the Rhodanthemum

Angle Shades

 

Feathered Thorn - quite different individuals above and below

Spruce Carpet

Stainland.

My thanks to Edward, for correcting my misidentified moth. See below.

I had a nice surprise this morning. A Red-Green Carpet, (worn) and two Angle Shades caterpillars, brown form. 

I've never seen two of the latter at the same time before. They gave me a little trouble at first. The markings on the ones below, are different to the other brown forms I've seen. Both are such a very dark brown, as to look almost a dull black. The photos showed otherwise. Caterpillar number 2, has quite a lot of green markings, as the images show.

Red-Green Carpet.

 

Autumn Shades Caterpillar 1.

 

Angle Shades Caterpillar 2 - with green marks.

Angle Shades head.

 

Angle Shades tail, showing claspers.
 

 

 

Rishworth - Overnight Moths - 17th October - A bit of autumn green

 Not bad last night here in Rishworth, good to get some NFYs and of couse, a beautiful Merveille du Jour.

Moth Trap 17th October:

Acleris sparsana x1 [NFY]

Red Line Quaker x1 [NFY]

Spruce Carpet x1 [NFY]

Merveille du Jour x1

November Moth Agg. x2

Common Marbled Carpet x1

Red Green Carpet x1

Yellow Line Quaker x3

Spruce Carpet, Rishworth, 17th October

Red Line Quaker, Rishworth, 17th October

Acleris sparsana, Rishworth, 17th October

Merveille du Jour, Rishworth, 17th October

Rishworth - 9:40pm

 Just popped out to the trap because I saw a triangle on the lamps rain cover and thought it was a Feathered Thorn but was delighted to find it was a Merveille du Jour, my second this year and third ever here in two years

Lee Mount - 17th October

Still here from yesterday - Common Marbled Carpet, Red-green Carpet, November Moth agg x 7 and Mottled Umber all hiding away on the fence near the trap.

New ones this evening (perhaps I missed them this morning)

Satellite x 1

Feathered Thorn x 1

Lee Mount - 16th October

 One new one for the autumn this morning

Mottled Umber

November Moth agg x 7

Tachystola acroxantha x 1

Red-green Carpet x1

Common Marbled Carpet  x 1 looking pretty worn by now

Silver Y

Also Small Tortoiseshell this morning

Lee Mount - 15th October

 Another very wet overnight but managed a single Satellite in the trap and a November Moth agg on the fence as well as the resident Silver Y still doing the rounds on the garden pot plants.

Northowram

 4 Heralds in Bare Head Tunnel , Silver Y and Red Admiral on Ivy in garden....and on next doors heather , Small Tortoiseshell , Red Admiral and a pristine Comma...!!!

Moth report update.

 I am now working on the update to the moth report I published earlier this year..If anybody has anything they would like to contribute or take out of the last one, seen any massive mistakes,,please email me or leave a comment below..I am planning the next edition in March 2021,,cheers

Lee Mount - 12th October

 Better than expected overnight

Feathered Thorn x 2

Red-green Carpet x 1

November Moth agg x 7

Blair's Shoulder-knot x 2

Light-brown Apple-moth x 4

Garden Rose Tortrix x 1

Silver Y x 1 from previous day still sheltered in a garden pot

Stainland.

1 x Garden Rose Tortix today.

It was cold and windy last night, I didn't think I'd see anything.

Juniper Carpet

                                                      Juniper Carpet x 1

                                                     Blairs Shoulder Knot x 1

                                                     Light Brown Apple Moth x 1

                                                    Garden Rose Tortrix x 1

Rishworth - 11th October - Overnight Moths.

 Not great but still not had a blank, so satisfactory.

Yellow Line Quaker X2

November Moth Agg. X1

Castle Carr Road and Saltonstall etc...

Nice bit of sunshine this afternoon alongside Luddenden Dean

Small Tortoiseshell x 3 (one on Michaelmas Daisy, the others in flight over the fields

Silver Y x 2 flying around near a farm just off Castle Carr Road

Ruby Tiger x 2 caterpillars on a track - one placed back in the vegetation though the other one was dead probably got trampled on at some point.

Red Admiral x 1 at home, again on Verbena bonariensis

Stainland.

 

This poest has been amended on the 11th Oct. 2020, after David and Edward corrected my mistake. Thank you both. I've adjusted my original post. The following is now correct.

A nice surprise for me this morning, an Autumn Green Carpet moth.

Autun Green Carpet.

Rishworth

 Red Admiral on Verbena Bonariensis/Japanese Anenome. Also one on Nasturtium 'Alpine Mixed'.

Lee Mount - 11th October

From last night

Feathered Thorn x 1

Acleris sparsana x 1

Common Marbled Carpet x 1

Light-brown Apple-moth x 3

Acleris sparsana

Feathered Thorn

Lee Mount - 9th October

 November Moth agg x 2 this morning and that was it !

Autumn so far....

 I don't know about anyone else, but Autumn here in Rishworth has been very poor. I have had no Sallows apart from 1 Centre Barred Sallow and Orange Sallow in August. I have added a right truckload of species to my list, e.g Small Autumnal Moth, but species from last year, other than Rosy Rustic and Common Marbled Carpet, have been quite patchy. I don't know if it is general decrease in trapping nights due to busier days combined with bad weather. Any thoughts comments are welcome.

Fox moth

This was found walking across the path on Norland Moor yesterday many thanks J Baldwin..I saw a Ruby Tiger cat also today  but just out of the area...
 

Lee Mount - 7th October

Another wet night I think, with some dry spells.

Yellow-line Quaker x 1

November Moth agg x 1

Common Marbled Carpet x 3 (2 dark ones and an orange blaze)

Light-brown Apple-moth x 3

This morning

Red Admiral x 1 on and off in the garden between the showers

Stainland. 6th. October 2020.

 Another poor quality 3 am photo, a Strawberry Tortrix. A little worse for wear. Nothing else I'm aftaid.

 

Strawberry Tortix.

Rishworth - 5th October - Overnight Moths - Not bad

 Not the best night but it was alright.

Moth Trap 5th October:

November Moth Agg. X6

Copper Underwing Agg. X1

Red Green Carpet x1

Common Marbled Carpet X2 (Orange blaze)

Lee Mount

 Red Admiral today on the Verbena and a Speckled Wood showed along the tree line several times.

5th October , Northowram

Large White x 2 adults ...10 cats feeding on Broccoli

Small Tortoiseshell x 1 

Red Admiral x 1

Lee Mount - 1st October

Just a Yellow-line Quaker in the trap this morning

November Moth agg x 1 on the fence

Silver Y on the pebble dashing last night

Just a single Red Admiral this afternoon at Cold Edge

Halifax.

For what it's worth, there was one Large White in Halifax town cenrtre today. It seems reasnable to assume there must be others.

Stainland.

 Butterflies:

1 x Large White 30th Sept. 

 

Moths on our door lastnight.

1 x Twenty Plume.

1 x Light Brown Apple.