Fly Flatts

This morning I initially came across 4 moths (which I couldn't identify at the time). They were feeding on Ragwort at the Oxenhope end of Fly Flats. Then I checked every Ragwort on the banking and counted 36 though I think there were more....Tricky getting photo's in the bright sunshine but after checking a phone photo with Andy...... .Haworth's Minor ?

 

Also up there this morning 16c, hot sunshine and flat calm I saw 9 Red Admirals and 2 Small Tortoiseshells heading across the water >SW with 1 Small Copper along the embankment.

Also 7 Black Darters with 2 in cop - around the ponds, the end of the res'r and across the wooden bridges.

 

Calderdale Wildlife: Aurora Borealis 17 03 2015.

Calderdale Wildlife: Aurora Borealis 17 03 2015.

Lee Mount

Not had any moths at all in the trap this week - in fact there have been none flying about the garden though on the way back from Oldham last night there were quite a few moths seen in the headlights over Buckstones and Scammonden Road.

I did find this very nice Angle Shades on the Raspberry canes near the trap last night (still there this morning) and an unidentified caterpillar on the pavings.

 Angle Shades

 

 

Beetle larva maybe ?

Claremount

Yesterday afternoon we went in search of Wall's in the usual spots around Pepper Hill but nothing doing on that score though it was a perfectly calm and hot sunny afternoon
8 Speckled Wood
1 Peacock
4 Small Tortoiseshell
2 Red Admiral

Also we had a large flying beetle we thought was a bee at first in flight being black and with large orange panels on the wing - we lost it in the grass and only got  a very blurred photo.

October 1st 2015

37 Small Tortoiseshell
2 Painted lady
3 Red Admiral
10 Speckled Wood
2 Small White
2 Silver Y

 

 

Northowram last night

Silver Y    x  2
Small Square Spot    x  1
Angle Shades x 1
Black Rustic x  2
Rosy Rustic x 1
Lunar Underwing   x 2
Common Marbled Carpet x 3
Red Green Carpet  x 1
Large Y U  x 7
Lesser Y U   x 1
Light Brown Apple Moth   x  2
Acleris Lat / Com x 2
Garden Rose Tortrix  x 3
Acleris Sparsana   x 2
Acleris Rhombana x 1
Blastobasis Ardustella x 2

Lee Mount etc

Lee Mount on 27th September
1 Copper Underwing agg
1 Beautiful Plume
1 Lesser Yellow Undwerwing
and that was it !

Along the canal from Luddenden Foot to and from Hebden Bridge didn't produce much yesterday
4+ Speckled Wood
1 Small Tortoiseshell
1 Small White
Quite  a few Caddis Fly along the canal towpath

28.09.2015

After the gloom had gone , it was like  a summers day....
Small Tortoiseshell  x 47
 Red Admiral           x  5
Small White            x   2
Speckled Wood      x  7
Silver Y                   x 11
Small Copper        x  1

Lee Mount

Saturday 26th September

This was on the Begonias this morning - is it a Silver Y ?

Last night on the window - Beautiful Plume ?

 

Nothing else today

Lee Mount

Friday night - a casualty - the Orange Sallow from earlier this week - I found it dead and well consumed, in a spiders web.

 Orange Sallow - dead !

Black Rustic - in the trap showing a V on the head - is this usual for this species ?

Black Rustic same moth as above

 

 

Also from tonight ...

2 Large Yellow Underwing

1 Autumnal Rustic

1 Copper Underwing agg





Last Nights Moths Northowram

A good night last night and my first Feathered Rannunculus since 2011 and first Red Underwing since 2012 .I was a bit worried about the Rannunculus status locally , very pleased to get this one last night.
Black Rustic x 2 , Lunar Underwing x 2 , Orange Sallow x 1 , Autumn Green Carpet x1 .Common Marbled Carpet x 4 , Large YU x 6  , lesser YU x 1 , Light Brown Apple Moth x 2 Silver Y x 3

Feathered Ranunculus

Orange Sallow 

Red Underwing

Thanks to Colin D for posting Pics.

Lee Mount

From last night 22nd September
Not many...
1 Svennson's Copper Underwing
2 Common Marbled Carpet (1 orange and a dark one)
1 Garden Carpet
3 Large Yellow Underwing
1 Acleris sparsana

Plus 2 am not sure of below

 Micro maybe (or maybe not) Blastobasis adustella ?

 

 

Is this a Square-spot Rustic OR Lesser Yellow Underwing OR something else?

Lee Mount

From last night 18th September - and another 2 new macro moths...!

Orange Sallow

 Red-green Carpet (I think)

Micro (but it's a struggle !!)

Acleris sparsana

Others from last night

2 Copper Underwing agg

4 Common Marbled Carpet (2 with the orange blaze)

6 Large Yellow Underwing

2 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

3 Lesser Yellow Underwing



Lee Mount 17th September

Last night - not a lot of moths about here but 2 I'm not sure of !

 2 above are the same one - worn looking Copper Underwing agg

 2 above - maybe Gothic or Feathered Gothic (antennae look feathered?)- they are one of the same moth looking slightly different colour in the different light conditions.

Lunar Underwing

 

 

 

Least Yellow Underwing (2 last night)

Also 2 Large Yellow Underwing and that was about it.
Earlier in the day we had 4 Red Admiral, 1 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood  and 3 Small Tortoiseshells on the Sedum

Unknowns and small coppers

I know it in not a butterfly, moth or dragonfly, but I came across this beastie just over the border in Bradford, it was 1-1.5 inches long but I have no idea what it is - anyone enlighten me. 

Also had 2 small coppers just below Thornton Moor reservoir.

Calderdale Wildlife: Petition to Ban Driven Grouse Shooting

Calderdale Wildlife: Petition to Ban Driven Grouse Shooting,by Mark Avery

Lee Mount

Last night 16th September
2 Autumnal Rustic (new one for me) and one each of the others plus a rather bedraggled Large Yellow Underwing.
Please correct any errors !!

Autumnal Rustic

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

Common Marbled Carpet

 Common Rustic ? correction Black Rustic

 

 Garden Carpet

 

 

Lesser yellow Underwing

Ploughcroft

This morning in the warm sunshine I came across a Wall butterfly - the first one I have seen this year though it was mobile and I wasn't able to get a photo unfortunately. 3 Small Coppers as well, all just near the lower end of Ringby Lane opposite the ski-slope.
Last year we found several Wall's on the hillside above Claremount (Pepper Hill) but have not been able to find any there this year despite several searches  !

2 Red Admirals and a Small Tortoiseshell and a Speckled Wood this afternoon in the garden with a load of bees as well on Sedum spectabile

Hydroptilidae Micro Caddis Record Cromwell Bottom LNR Sun 13th September 2015

As pointed by Ben its a small Micro Caddis - Found at vegetaation nr The Weir The Family is  Hydroptilidae  and it could well be  Hydroptila vectis but its not an exact Science . The specimen is 3 - 5 mm  

Butterflies

Not been a bad week at Northowram with Holly Blue , Speckled Wood , Small Copper , Small Tortoiseshell , Peacock , Large , Small and Green veined Whites and a very tatty Meadow Brown.