Friday night in the garden

Lesser Swallow Prominent

Lempke's Gold Spot

Common Footman

Bright-line Brown-eye

Dark Spectacle

Flame Shoulder

Freyers Pug

Rustic

Dusky Brocade

Pale Shouldered Brocade?

Small Angle Shades

Dark Spectacle?

Dusky Brocade

?

Dark Arches

Clouded Bordered Brindle - Dark Type

?

Peppered Moths in Luddenden

                                           It's been a good week in Luddenden for Peppered Moths with 19 so far

                                          this is the usual variety (17 of these)

                    
                                          this seems intermediate - is this insularia -illustrations show an all dark body

                                          this is the melanistic type, this one had a white forehead
                                         

This week in Luddenden

                                          Miller - only the second for me here

                                          Small-dotted Buff

                                          Beautiful Snout - I think the cat had been playing
                                          with this one, it was dead next to my trap, only the
                                          fifth for Yorkshire I think

                                          Buff-tip, one of my favourites                                    

                                          A regular species in the garden but always good to
                                          see

                                          Pug for i.d. - is this Oak-tree Pug?

                                          Pebble Prominent - another new one for the garden

Golden plusia,Willow beauty and Last nights moths

Golden plusia a garden favourite , association with delphiniums and Willow beauty.....

1376	Eurrhypara hortulata	Small Magpie	4
1653	Habrosyne pyritoides	Buff Arches	1
1713	Idaea aversata ab. remutata	Riband Wave [non-banded form]	3
1713	Idaea aversata	Riband Wave	4
1727	Xanthorhoe montanata	Silver-ground Carpet	2
1728	Xanthorhoe fluctuata	Garden Carpet	2
1738	Epirrhoe alternata	Common Carpet	2
1742	Camptogramma bilineata	Yellow Shell	1
1764	Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	5
1827	Eupithecia intricata	Freyer's Pug	2
1832	Eupithecia assimilata	Currant Pug	1
1834	Eupithecia vulgata	Common Pug	1
1860	Pasiphila rectangulata	Green Pug	1
1922	Ourapteryx sambucaria	Swallow-tailed Moth	2
1931	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	5
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	1
1961	Campaea margaritata	Light Emerald	2
1981	Laothoe populi	Poplar Hawk-moth	1
2006	Pheosia gnoma	Lesser Swallow Prominent	1
2050	Eilema lurideola	Common Footman	2
2064	Phragmatobia fuliginosa	Ruby Tiger	1
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	8
2098	Axylia putris	Flame	2
2102	Ochropleura plecta	Flame Shoulder	2
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	1
2118	Lycophotia porphyrea	True Lover's Knot	2
2120	Diarsia mendica	Ingrailed Clay	1
2199	Mythimna pallens	Common Wainscot	1
2284x	Acronicta tridens/psi	Grey Dagger / Dark Dagger	2
2289	Acronicta rumicis	Knot Grass	3
2293	Cryphia domestica	Marbled Beauty	4
2305	Euplexia lucipara	Small Angle Shades	4
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	5
2326	Apamea crenata	Clouded-bordered Brindle	4
2441	Autographa gamma	Silver Y	2
2442	Autographa pulchrina	Beautiful Golden Y	14
2449	Abrostola triplasia	Dark Spectacle	1
2450	Abrostola tripartita	Spectacle	1
2477	Hypena proboscidalis	Snout	3
2489	Zanclognatha tarsipennalis	Fan-foot	2
MapMate: 12:59 Sat 13 Jul 2013

Mystery Crambus Sp.

Last night this Crambus looking species found its way into my kitchen. Could it be 1302 Crambus perlella? It has a v fine moustache !

Sowerby Bridge Moths

Lime Hawk Moth





Miller

Figure of Eighty

Help needed, Dusky Brocade?

Buff Arches

A few selections from recently down here overlooking the canal

on Wakefield Road. Been keeping diligent(ish) record since

late May.



Some Moths from round and about

Help required with the id please

silver ground carpet?

                                                ?

?

? great camouflage but not for a kitchen window

Hawkmoths...use ultra sound to combat bats.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130704100835.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+News+--+Top+Science%29&safe=active

From the garden this weekend

Mint Moth

Large Yellow Underwing

Peppered Moth

Small Angle Shades

Garden Carpet?

Silver ground Carpet?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

Micropterix

After yesterday thinking I had seen Micropterix calthella (and I may have done) I thought I would go back to the site where I found it. Try and find another and this time get a better pic to id it. Well as you know, this rarely works. However in this case I did find a Micropterix but this one looks like 0004 Micropterix aruncella. (Can anyone confirm this id pls?) I have a pic that's a little better (below) and the moth in a pot to try with the camera again tomorrow, but to be honest these things are so small its on the limits of what I can capture. I also have another pot with a Sigmella sp inside which is about the same size. Spent too long looking for these this aft and am now covered in midge bites.

Silver Linings

Until this week I had never seen a Clouded Silver Lomographa temerata But after seeing one at Glastonbury I was having a shave the other morning looking out of the window and spotted another. Both shown below (Glasto moth top and better marked). Also today found Micropterix calthella but sadly no decent photo.

Strange Wainscot

Found this Common Wainscot in the doorway of a shower block at Glastonbury Festival. I noticed that one of the wings is quite a bit larger than the other. Is it an example of bilateral gynandromorphy. A situation where each half of an insect has all the characteristics of its gender. i.e. one male wing and one female. Anyone any experience of this?

Bradley Wood 21/6/13

Beautiful Golden Y ?

Festoon?

?

?

Help me out guys, I'm new to this :)

Oats Royd

I have been down to Oats Royd a few times over the past week and have had plenty of damselflies of the common blue, blue tailed and large red variety. I also collected a Dragonfly exuvia, though I did not find the dragonfly that came from it.
  I also found a couple of moth species which I am unsure of their identification...

Beautiful Golden Y?

-No Idea

Larva ID Help..

Found on trefoil..........................................