Puss Moth

Not bad for my first moth of the year. It was reared from this larvae feeding on Aspen found at Hollin Hall, Hardcastle Crags last June.

Stainland.

Sunday night 24 March;

1 X Angle Shades Caterpillar.

Angle Shades  cat.

Lee Mount micro

This smart looking Caloptilia micro showed up this week. Couldn't decide between elongella or betulicola. Yorkshire Moths suggested gen.det. so checked with CF - correct options, but can't reliably tell them apart without dissection. The moth has gone now !

Lee Mount - 17th /18th March

Slight improvement....

Dotted Border x 1

Hebrew Character x 5

March Moth x 1

Common  Plume x 1

Brindled Pug x 1

Agonopterix heracliana x 2

Stainland.

 Happy St. Patricks Day!

I hope everyone is well and looking forward to a lovely, moth-filled Spring.

What a good day to celebrate my first moth sighting since last year. I have 1 Common plume on the door.

 Luddenden 12th - 16th March

It's been pretty good these last four nights despite the windy and often wet weather

These are the totals for the last four nights

March Moth  7   5 on the 12th

Pine Beauty 1   12th

Yellow Horned  1  12th

Early Grey 1   12th

Oak Beauty  8   5 on the 15th

Common Quaker  68   23 on the 14th

Small Quaker  3

Twin-spot Quaker  1   14th

Hebrew Character  27   7 on the 14th

Clouded Drab  5

Chestnut  8

Satellite - orange spotted 1

Yellow Horned

Oak Beauty

Pine Beauty

Ringby Lane and Lee Mount

First butterfly of the year for me with this Small Tortoiseshell this morning on the one small clump of Daffodils on Ringby top. Just lucky as no other flowers on the top other than a few scattered Coltsfoot flowers.

Five moths in /around the trap between 14th and 15th

One each - Clouded Drab, Common Plume, Hebrew Character and a Common Quaker along with an Agonopterix heracliana

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Common Plume

Hebrew Character

Lee Mount

Just four moths this last week. Common Quaker (4th and 7th), Oak Beauty (5th) and a March Moth (7th).

March Moth

Two shots of the same Oak Beauty

Whiteholme

Unidentified caterpillar

Lee Mount - 4th March

 Just the one moth - Common Quaker in the trap this morning.

Lee Mount - 29th February

Always put the light on if conditions allow. Even then I was surprised to find a March Moth on the fence by the light but that was it - light out.