Ringstone Edge

Orange Tip 1 male

Hardcastle Crags ...3 hours on Tuesday night...

Pine Beauty (brick red) , Sallow Kitten and another Orange Footman last night , ran trap for 1 hour .

 

Stainland.

 Warmer weather is bringing moths to our garden, at last.

2 x 20 Plumes (Not shown, poor photos due to using telephoto lens.)

1 x Small Magpie moth.

Small Magpie 

Dyseriocrania subpurpurella ?

 Wondering if these two are just variants of subpurpurella ?

Ringstone Edge

Peacock 1, Small White 5

Bar Lane

1 of 2 Small Whites. 

Also 2 male Orange Tips.

And:-

Cromwell Bottom

                                                    Shoulder Stripe
 

 Acleris cristana

Twin - spotted Quaker 

                                                        Pale Prominent (thanks Luke)

A busy first session at Cromwell Bottom last night..

Purple Thorn x 7

Early Thorn x 4

Herald x 2

Lesser Swallow Prominent x 1

Pale Prominent x 1

Pebble Hook-Tip x 1

Spectacle x 1

ETS x 1

MG x 1

Shoulder Stripe x 1

Grey Birch x 1

Grey Shoulder Knot x 1

Brindled Pug x 1

Golden Rod Pug/white spotted Pug  x 1 

Common Quaker x 6

Clouded Drab x 4

Hebrew Character x 5 

Twin-Spot Quaker x 1

Dark Barred Twin Spot Carpet x 1

Tufted Tortrix  Acleris Cristana ( new to Calderdale)

Grey Birch Dot x 1

Common Birch leaf miner x 2

Emperor Moth - Castle Carr Road 100425

 I took a newly emerged female to Castle Carr Road (where I found the Caterpillars last June) 

I had only been there a few minutes before she attracted three males

Stump Cross

Orange Tip 1 male

Hardcastle Crags

 

Lee Mount - 1st April

 A warmer night and slightly better results !

Diurnia fagella x 4

Early Thorn x 1

Early Grey x 1

Common Quaker x 6

Hebrew Character x 2

Double-striped Pug x 2

Oak Nycteoline x 1

Acleris literana x 1 NFM

Acleris literana

Early Thorn

Oak Nycteoline

Also on the last day of March

Dotted Border x 1

Early Grey x 1

Hebrew Character x 1

Common Quaker x 1

Clouded Drab x 2

Twin-spotted Quaker x 1

Common Plume x 1

Falcon Moth Traps

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