Bank Hey Bottom Lane - Ripponden - 28th December

Found a Stigmella Aurella Mine on Saturday. In the left bank of ripponden valley

Also am aiming for early Pale Brindled Beauty tomorrow night anyone else trapping?

Merry Christmas!

Hello all,

Thought that a merry Christmas would be good. I found A Diptera mine earlier (phytomyza Illicis). Not exactly moths but hey ho. I had a look with my microscope and can confirm it. My pictures later.

THE KEY MESSAGE: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Edward

HAPPY X=MAS .......

Stainland.

At last, I have a moth. I was resigned to not seeing any more until next Spring. It's a Winter Moth - Operophtera brumata, as one might expect.

Winter Moth.

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone., and a peaceful New Year.

Lee Mount - 22nd December

One here for scrutiny found in the trap this morning. Very small, only 6mm  max

The nearest I can get within any realms of possibility is maybe........

Caloptilia rufipennella or maybe Aspilapteryx tringipennella

The Field Guide (Sterling, Parsons, Lewington) to micros suggests the former usually has no markings but 'has an orange brown form with small black spots in a line below the costa and one below the dorsum with a similar spot before the termen'....

Confirmed (CF) as Caloptilia rufipennella

Rishworth - Yet another!

Moth Trapping 21st December 2019
Yet another moth for the tallies. A Mottled Umber on the trap's umbrella. Annoyingly no pictures as it flew away befor I could get a picture.

List of Species
Mottled Umber x1

Rishworth - First moth for 4 weeks!

Moth Trapping 20th December 2019
Very pleased as got my first moth this month or since 23rd November so pleased with last night. Another Chestnut for the tallies. Every Record Helps!

List of Species
Chestnut x1

Lee Mount

This week - just one Winter Moth on 17th 
I was just about to give up putting the trap on at night until the new year but put it on tonight in the drizzle not really expecting anything.
This one turned up on the fence by the trap and thought at first Pale-brindled Beauty. Taking a closer look I'm not so certain now. The shape of the wing, I think, suggests Mottled Umber (?) but I've not seen a melanic form previously so I'm still puzzling over it.
Any thoughts ?

It is really dark with a hint of a purple tinge to it and some dark brown. Wing length c22 mm.

Moth Night at CB

 See cromwellbottom.blogspot.com.

The Rishworth Records 2019 UP TO OCTOBER ONLY

My Records This Year
KEY:
NFG= New For Garden
NFY= New for year

22/7/2019 - Sugar
8 Old Lady
6 Common Rustic Agg.
16 Large Yellow Underwing
8 Dark Arches
6 Copper Underwing Agg.

28/08/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
2 Sallow [NFG]
17 Autumnal Rustic [NFG]
21 Large Yellow Underwing
12 Copper Underwing Agg.
11 Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing [NFG]
11 Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFG]
1 Dingy Footman (F.Stramineola) [NFG]
1 Blood-Vein [NFG]
2 Garden Carpet [NFG]
2 Mother of Pearl [NFG]
7 Svensson's Copper Underwing [NFG]
3 Dun-Bar [NFG]
2 Chevron [NFG]
3 Least Yellow Underwing [NFG]

30/08/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
1 Canary-Shouldered Thorn [NFG]
17 Large Yellow Underwing
18 Autumnal Rustic
1 Setaceous Hebrew Character [NFG]
8 Frosted Orange [NFG]
9 Lesser Yellow Underwing
3 Rosy Rustic [NFG]
4 Brown-Spot Pinion [NFG]
1 Angle-Striped Sallow [NFG]
12 Square-Spot Rustic [NFG]
7 Small Wainscot [NFG]
2 Dun-Bar
3 Least Yellow Underwing
1 Antler Moth [NFG]

31/08/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
7 Square-Spot Rustic
8 Dark Arches
4 Rosy Rustic
7 Frosted Orange
18 Large Yellow Underwing
14 Autumnal Rustic
8 Copper Underwing Agg.
6 Small Wainscot
1 Angle Shades [NFG]
3 Common Rustic Agg.

06/09/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
2 Large Yellow Underwing
3 Square-Spot Rustic
2 Common Marbled Carpet [NFG]

07/09/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
1 Centre-Barred Sallow [NFG]
1 Angle Shades
1 Large Yellow Underwing

10/09/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
1 Mouse Moth [NFG]
3 Large Yellow Underwing
2 Red Green Carpet [NFG]

14/09/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
6 Lesser Yellow Underwing
5 Large Yellow Underwing
8 Copper Underwing Agg.
4 Yellow-Line Quaker [NFG]
3 Silver Y [NFG]

20/09/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
1 Copper Underwing Agg.
1 Brown Spot Pinion
3 Large Yellow Underwing
3 Pink-Barred Sallow [NFG]
1 Orange Sallow [NFG]
1 Celypha Lacunana [NFG]
1 Yellow Line Quaker

21/09/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
1 Black Rustic [NFG]
1 Pink-Barred Sallow
8 Red Green Carpet
1 Lesser Yellow Underwing
1 Brown Spot Pinion
1 Chestnut [NFG]

27/09/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
2 Black Rustic
4 Red Green Carpet
3 Yellow Line Quaker

02/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
2 November Moth Agg.

04/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
3 Yellow Line Quaker
9 Red Green Carpet
2 Red Line Quaker [NFG]
1 Flounced Chestnut [NFG]
1 Epinotia Ramella [NFG]

06/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
6 Yellow Line Quaker
1 Red Line Quaker
12 November Moth Agg.
6 Red Green Carpet
1 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Feathered Thorn [NFG]
1 Satellite [NFG]
1 Angle Shades

07/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
1 Merveille du Jour [NFG]
2 Chestnut
3 Red Green Carpet
1 Black Rustic
6 November Moth Agg.

11/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
2 Feathered Thorn
1 November Moth Agg.
1 Copper Underwing Agg.
1 Satellite

19/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
7 November Moth Agg.
1 Red Green Carpet
2 Mottled Umber [NFG]
1 Yellow Line Quaker
4 Feathered Thorn
2 Brick [NFG]
1 Chestnut
1 Red Line Quaker
1 Acleris Sparsana

24/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
1 Brick
2 Mottled Umber
2 Chestnut
2 Satellite
1 November Moth Agg.

26/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
1 feathered Thorn

28/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner 
1 Red Line Quaker
2 Satellite
1 Red Green Carpet
2 Yellow Line Quaker

31/10/2019 - 20w Actinic ALS Compact Skinner
3 Red Green Carpet
1 Brick
3 Yellow Line Quaker
15 Satellite
3 Chestnut
1 Mottled Umber

Lee Mount - December

Not  a great deal doing this last week
A few Winter Moths with a maximum of 5 to light on 3rd December
Mottled Umber x 2 also on 3rd - one was caught in a spiders web but I released it !
Red-green Carpet x 1 on 4th
Yellow-line Quaker x 1 on 7th

 Winter Moth

 Winter Moths x 2  underwings

 I've also been looking out for Northern Winter Moths to try get a decent under-wing shot but non appeared as yet this winter here.

Yellow-line Quaker from 6th/7th Dec

Stainland.

We have been away in our town house for a few days. I came home 100% certain I would not have had any moths. I was wrong. I only looked for moths 10 hours after getting home today. I have one, a Mottled Umber. To me, this moth is one of those that a person new to moth-ing would really struggle with. It's the second of this species I've had this year, the other was on the 25th Oct. They look nothing like each other.

Mottled Umber.

Rishworth- Common Plume

Wandered around the garden at dusk. Just an Emmelina Monadactyla.

Indoor mothing

There's been a Mompha subbistrigella on my landing window sill for the last few days, surprisingly it hasn't moved at all.

Cousin Lane - Halifax

A chestnut reported at 12:30 today...

Lee Mount - end of November

26th November was the best night
5 Winter Moths along with these below

 Mottled Umber x 2

 Red-green Carpet

 Scarce Umber

Tachystola acroxantha

26th still present on 27th November
Pretty sure this is a fading Brick with the outermost cross-line looking jagged under the lens.

Brick

Also on 26th I did Shroggs landfill site around part of the tree belt - I managed 18 Winter Moth males between 16:30 and 17:10 - before the torch ran out !!

Only House Wood

Winter Moth male  x 340
Winter Moth female x 2
Scarce Umber x 1
Mottled Umber x 2
Yellow line Quaker (not Brick)  x 1

A few from this week

A few from this week , Winter moths peaked on Wednesday evening about 450 + ......

(UPDATED AGAIN) Moth Night At Cromwell ...

--_-------------------_-----------There will be a moth night on Sat. Light on at 4.30 other details at cromwellbottom.blogspot.com.

Am planning to bring my own sugar mix for everyone there. Barry chucked the last lot cos it was mank and horrible :-)

Might not be able to make it but we'll see

Rshworth- My first Scarce Umber!

Moth Trapping Session 23rd November 2019
My first Scarce Umber at last. Good Otherwise.

List of Species
Scarce UMber x2
Satellite x5
Chestnut x1