Red Admirals

New Bank 2,  Listers Road 1

Langfield 27 08 23

 Cooler Temperatures ,still did okay though,fresh Small Autumnal Moth,Heath Rustic,Anomalous the picks.ps thought the Small Autumnal Moth was a Grey Mountain Carpet ( a target species ) until it opened its wings,still a nice record though.

Lee Mount etc...-23rd August

 This moth is always a bit special. Just the 4th record for here.

Purple Bar

Most others 'run of the mill' this morning including Mouse Moth x 3 and one each Riband Wave, Shuttle-shapped Dart and a Willow Beauty etc.

Fewer butterfly's the last few days but  a Holly Blue still at home and on Hunter Hill this afternoon (SE058297) just two species -- Wall Brown x 3 and Green-veined Whites x 5

Wall Brown

Lee Mount - 21st August

Another Yellow-barred Brindle - certainly a different one from 17th - lovely moth.

Large Yellow Underwing still in good numbers with 38 this morning

Spectacle x 1

+ a few other bits...

Hummingbird Hawmoth paid us a visit this afternoon - they don't stay long - photo best I could do !

Still got a Holly Blue and Speckled Woods.

Spectacle

Hummingbird Hawkmoth on Verbena bonariensis

Tawny Speckled pug

 First  Tawny Speckled Pug for a while , Flounced Rustics , Campion ,Yellow barred Brindle ,  Orange Swift , first Vines Rustic of the year , and 75 LYU..........

Lee Mount - 20th August

 A scarce one for me this morning with only five previous records here and the first since Sep 2019

Rosy Rustic

Also

Mouse Moth x 1, Small Phoenix x 1 along with several other expected species and still a good turnout of 63 Large Yellow Underwing.

Holly Blue still doing the rounds this afternoon.

Hebden Bridge

 Holly Blue female 1.  Thomas and Lewington say that 2nd brood females have broad black margins on the upperwings. The first photo shows a segment of this margin.

Lee Mount and Hag Lane

Quite a day in the garden late morning into early afternoon. Not many butterflies about in the blustery wind but the sun was hot in the shelter of the tree line.

Purple Hairstreak - just the one, around and resting on a cluster of leaves for several minutes on one of the big oaks at the back. Got the bins on it several times then tried with the scope but that was hopeless not being able to find the spot among the many oak leaves - not a good idea !

1 Peacock, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Large White, 2 Speckled Wood and 2 Holly Blues. The latter just seem to fly around a circuit, hardly ever landing.

Hag Lane - on the east side of the hill in the shelter from the wind on a flowering heather slope with a background of big holly's produced 2 Holly Blue, 1 Gatekeeper, 3 Small Copper, 2 Speckled Wood and a Peacock.

Not been able to find a Common Blue yet this year !

Bank Top

 Small Copper 1

Cunnery Wood

 Speckled Wood 1  (and Ladybird)

Lee Mount - 17th August

 Best of the last few days has been these two..

Pretty sure this is a Chevron though the markings are well faded

Yellow-barred Brindle (only the 3rd record for here)

Plenty of Yellow Underwings - the five usual sp.

Copper Underwings agg have also started to appear with 3 last night

News from Langfield Common ,

 Brian has been running a small trap on the Cliff face at langfield Common for the last few weeks .

Drinker x 5 , Neglected Rustic (red form below) , Tissue , Lime Speck Pug , Confused , Anomalous 20 + and a few Yellow Underwings...

Stainland.

 In spite of the rain last night, there are a few here this morning;

3 x Marbled Beauties

1 x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

1 x Brimstone (My first this year)

Stainland.

 Here are two days worth of moth reports. Life got in my way, which is why they are late.

Moth Count 10 & 11 Aug 2023 (Combined Count)

4 x Marbled Beauties

4 x Blastobasis lacustrata

5 x Blastobasis adustella

2 Light Brown Apple

1 x Small Fan-footed wave TBC

3 x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

The moth below is quite worn. I can't tell if it originally had two spots on each side, or just one spot each side. Could someone give me an ID for it please.

Small Fan-footed wave TBC

 

Also on the 11th Aug. I had a walk down Carr Hall Lane. It was quite windy, but a few butterflies risked it.

6 x Speckled Wood

5 x Small White

1 x Small Tortoiseshell

1 x Gatekeeper

1 x 1 x Large White - Pieris brassicae

1 x Small blue, spotted by Anne in the village she didn't get a good view. She wasn't able to tell which it type it was.

Cold Edge

Peacock 6

Lee Mount - 10th August

 What a haul......

These Large Yellow Underwings were what was left in the trap after I emptied the egg boxes. I was counting them as I emptied the boxes and of course many escaped. I lost count at 190 so there were in excess of 200. Never had so many of these previously. Perfect warm, muggy night. Quite overwhelming and not easy looking for other species in amongs them !

27 species in total with the best of the rest including one each of ... Six-striped Rustic, Phoenix, Small Phoenix, Yellow Shell, Willow Beauty, Common Carpet, Lesser Yellow Underwing and Small Fan-footed Wave.

Also Mouse Moth x 3, Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing x 3, Acrobasis advenella x 4.

Stainland.

 Not much today.

1 x Eudonia lacustrata

5  x Marbled Beauties

Cold Edge

Speckled Wood 2

Plenty Butterflies.......

Hard to keep up with them last few days

Cold Edge (Moorlands Farm - SE043304 ) overgrown garden was buzzing yesterday (7th). Despite the rather breezy day the shelter in the garden certainly improved the numbers - especially the blackberry bushes with....Large Skipper x 1, Small Skipper x 7, Ringlet x 2, Gatekeeper x 2, Small Heath x 1, Small Copper x 1, 3 sp. of 'Whites, along with M Browns, Small Torts and a Red Ad.

At home we had 10 species on Sunday 6th including 2 Holly Blue flying together. Later in the afternoon 2 Wall Browns were on the hillside walls on Hag Lane near Bradford Old Road. 

A Small Copper today was a first at home for the year and we found another Small Copper in St George's Church graveyard this morning. 

This really dark Small Skipper had me fooled for a while at The Withens this afternoon thinking maybe 'Essex' - it did have orange underside to the antenna which took some seeing in a windy spot.

Small Skipper on ragwort

Cold Edge

 Small Skipper 1

Peacock 2

Also: Green-veined White 1, Meadow Brown 1, Small Tortoiseshell 3, Red Admiral 1

Stainland.

 A little warmer and  a few moths came out.

1 x Eudonia lacustrata

1 x Marbled Beauty

1 x Small Magpie (Find of the season, so far).

Small Magpie 

Lee Mount - 7th August

Pug giving me a bit of struggle....20mm wingspan

Maybe Slender, Currant (or Wormwood but no black band on abdomen) maybe not any of these??

Golden-rod Pug  (CF)

Cold Edge

 Gatekeeper 1 male

Also, Green-veined White 2

Sunshine after the rain !

 Lots of butterflies about today

Carrs Beck and Stodfold this morning. A lot of Meadow Browns but most looking very worn now. One each Small Skipper and a Ringlet. A few Large and Small Whites though Green-veined Whites were the commoner of the three.

Lee Mount. Holly Blue x 2 flying together, Gatekeeper x 1, Red Admiral x 3, Small Tortoiseshell x 3, Meadow Brown x 1, Comma x 2, Speckled Wood x 1 along with a few Large and Small Whites

Gatekeeper - reluctant to show upper-wing

Baitings

?? Water Veneer

Also: Green-veined White 1, Small Tortoiseshell 1