Shibden Valley

Mint Moth 2

Also: Holly Blue 1

Lee Mount - w/e 26th July

 It's been a good week again for butterflies in the garden. Unprecedented in the continuing hot, sunny days, mainly attracted to Verbena bonariensis as well as Buddleia, Echinacea and White Valerian etc...

1 Painted Lady, 2 Gatekeeper, 6+Small White, 2+Large White, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Peacock, 1 Small Copper, 1 Holly Blue (daily), 1 Peacock. 1 Comma, 1 Small Skipper, 3+ Meadow Brown, 1 Speckled Wood and just 1 Green-veined White.

Also yesterday morning a Purple Hairstreak turned up fluttering on the grass in the early morning sunshine, I suspect it was attracted to morning dew (?). I have seen this with them in recent years.

It was a surprise as I've not seen them over the nearby oaks at all yet this year.

I grabbed some shots but camera was on the wrong setting and they are just about bleached out though can just see enough detail to confirm its identity.

One nice moth this morning despite the overnight rain.

Coxcomb Prominent

Baitings

Red Admiral 2

Also: Gatekeeper 3, Green-veined White 3

Lee Mount (recently)

 

Pebble Prominent - 23 July

Only the second one I've had here. The first was a dead one from a spiders web on 21st July 2024.

Engrailed - 21st to 23rd July

A first for here - a really nice moth. This one stayed three days on the fence by the light trap.

Box-tree Moth -  23rd July

A species origin in China and Korea first seen in the UK in 2007 and then in 2014 in Yorkshire. The larva are a pest of Box hedges.

Ringstone Edge, 22 July

Small Skipper

TESTING TESTINg

 

Ringstone Edge

Gatekeeper 4

Dragonfly

Bar Lane, 16 July:  Common Hawker 1 female

Ryburn Reservoir

Holly Blue 1.  The second brood emerges in "late July and August", (Thomas and Lewington, Butterflies of B & I)

Gatekeepers

14 July: Shibden Valley 1

16 July: Bar Lane 1, Ryburn Res 1

Lee Mount - 15th July

 One under scrutiny !

Just about 18mm with pale grey / off white underwing.

Lee Mount - 7th July

A new one for me - and think the 10km square...

Acrobasis repandana

Another highlight of the week... 145 Bird-cherry Ermines on 7th (+ a few more hidden away around the trap I suspect).

Beacon Hill

Gatekeeper 1

Spackled Wood 2

Also: White-letter Hairstreak 1 (VERY camera shy!),  Red Admiral 1