October 6th

One Small Copper and a Diamond Backed Moth ( a migrant ) today at Ringstone, 5 Red Admiral , 8 Small Tortoisehell and 1 Speckled Wood at Northowram

Whiteholme

This morning the sunshine started to get out and it was quite warm
I managed 5 Haworth's Minor still on Ragwort and this moth below which looked slightly smaller than them. ? Not identified yet if anyone can help..wondered about Ear Moth but am probably way off the mark !

 

Also along the drain and the res'r embankment

5+ Black Darters with another 2 in cop

1 unidentified large blueish Dragonfly

1 Sexton Beetle

3 Red Admirals

12+ Small Tortoiseshells

5 Silver Y's

And a large very white butterfly that took me by surprise when I disturbed it along the track. I thought it was like a Swallowtail Moth by it's size and similar shape only it was pure white. It flew off over the moor and I lost it in the distance. Was it just a fresh Large White (?) though there did not appear to be any black on it at all - baffled again !!! It was away too fast for the camera.

 

 

 

Micro Moth Ypsolopha sequella

Heres a pic of the Ypsolopha sequella approx 11mm,

which feeds on Field Maple and Sycamore,that  came to the light on National Moth Night at Hardcastle Crags.I persevered with a Stacking Technique of taking a series of photos at different Focal Points,a challenging idea with a living Moth ! This pic was the result of 17 pics each one manually focussed and stacked together in order to get the complete Depth of Field from front to back,unfortunately there is still slight movement of the outer part of the anntenae,this was the best of 3 series of pics of this Beautiful Micro Moth,which was released after.Camera Canon 40D,60mm Canon Macro Lens with a 13mm Extension Tube .Regards Brian Leecy.

Whiteholme Reservoir

Along the drain to Whiteholme this afternoon I turned up 8 more Haworth's Minor
7 on Ragwort and 1 on a Thistle

Haworth's Minor

Also 2 Silver Y were disturbed along the catchwater drain
and 5 or more Black Darter dragonflies along the drain
10+ Small Tortoiseshell along the reservoir embanklment

Haworths Minor update....

I had 44 + today at Fly flats feeding on Ragwort very close to the reservoir  some very tatty individuals but some quite smart ones too. A few Black Darter ,1 Ruby Tiger larvae , 1 Silver Y , 1 Small Tortoiseshell and a large moth over the moor which was unidentifiable..............

France 2015

 False Mocha

 Jersey Tiger

Glanville Fritillary

 Swallowtail

Epilecta linogrisea

A few from France ...August 2015

Broad Bordered Bee Hawkmoth

 Brown Hairstreak

 Silver Washed Fritillary

Pine Tree Lappet

Trebble Bar

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