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Stainland 17th July.

2 Eudonia mercurella by the door.

Stainland 16th July 2017.

Riband Wave.

Eudonia mercurella. (Fairy sure anyway). I saw three, the other two were by the door in the middle of the night, when I let our cat out.

The third moth is proving difficult. It needs an ID.

Riband Wave

The Eudonia was in a very tight corner in the hall. I had to crop the photo to make it look OK.

Eudonia mercurella

?

Mid July

Another Varied Coronet last night with Plain Wave ,Light Arches ,Uncertain , Short Cloaked Moth and 6 Swallow - tailed Moth

Pugs this week
V - Pug x 1
Green Pug x 1 (very worn)
Foxglove Pug x 2
Double Striped Pug x 3
Narrow winged Pug x 1

Next Weekend Fri / Sat we will be trying to run 4/5 traps in the Craggs overnight all welcome will update during the week

Ogden golf course

Struggling with his one below and apologies for the rubbish photo... I thought at first it was a Silver-ground Carpet but it doesn't look right for that and it doesn't seem to fit Common Carpet either. It seems to have a greyish band through the darker central cross band which gets paler towards the black marks.

Lots of Ringlets up there in the long grass early afternoon - and it was still pretty dull.

Cromwell Bottom

Had a quick walk round today before the sun came out.....
Small Skipper x 2
Comma x 1
Red Admiral x 2
Gatekeeper x 1
Speckled Wood x 2
Meadow Brown x 2
Ringlet x 5
Green veined White x 3
Small White   x 1
Large White x 1
Brown Hawker x 2
Common Darter x 3
Emperor x 1

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Stainland 12 July.

Today, seen but not photographed. How many photos of common moths can one take?

1 Marbled Beauty.
1 Twenty Plume.
1 Eudonia lactustrata.

Varied Coronet

Another good night in Northowram , ran the MV 125 all night and this produced 107 moths of 22 species , there was a cool wind but no rain . Other moths were Dark Arches 25 , Heart and dart 11 , LY Underwing 5 , Common Footman 6 , Riband Wave 9 , Light Emerald 2 , Swallow Tailed Moth 1 , Purple Clay 1 ,  Garden Pebble , Snout , Flame , Green Carpet   etc... Varied Coronet was a first here and only the 3rd local record.

Garden Moths Sun 10th July 2017

Garden Moths Sun 10th July 2017, Parish of Shelf


Weather : Warm 17o  Dry . Moon Phase  Near Full. Occ. light breezes

The usual Large Clumsy Onion Rings in abundance . Small Magpie,, Snout.and Heart & Dart in relative abundance +5 Some species reflected adjacent garden cutting and or fruit trees ( Apple)
Quite a few micros flying  A wave of Common Footman occured later in the eveing

Other Entomology Green Lacewing, Orange ladybird , Beetle


17.012 BF462      Ypsolopha sequella  x1
16.001 BF424      Bird-cherry Ermine Yponomeuta evonymella  x1
73.368 BF2136    The Gothic Naenia typica

63.081 BF1294    Inlaid Grass Veneer Crambus pascuella x1

63.025 BF1376    Small Magpie Anania hortulata  x3

70.207 BF1887    Clouded Border Lomaspilis marginata  x3

70.226 BF1906    Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata

73.342 BF2107    Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba x10

73.162 BF2321    Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha  x5

72.003 BF2477    The Snout Hypena proboscidalis  x5+
70.283 BF1961    Light Emerald Campaea margaritaria
70.016 BF1713    Riband Wave Idaea aversata ab. remutata, x
70.016 BF1713    Riband Wave Idaea aversata
73.317 BF2089    Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis  x5
70.252 BF1931    Peppered Moth Biston betularia  x1
73.012 BF2434    Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis x1

73.173 BF2337    Marbled Minor Oligia strigilis

73.267 BF2160    Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea x3
65.009 BF1653    Buff Arches Habrosyne pyritoides
73.040 BF2280    The Miller Acronicta leporina
72.045 BF2050    Common Footman Eilema lurideola
73.001 BF2450    The Spectacle Abrostola tripartita
73.045 BF2289    Knot Grass Acronicta rumicis

more to add...........

17.012 BF462      Ypsolopha sequella 





16.001 BF424      Bird-cherry Ermine Yponomeuta evonymella








73.040 BF2280    The Miller Acronicta leporina




73.368 BF 2136  The Gothic Naenia typica 

65.009 BF1653    Buff Arches Habrosyne pyritoides






73.012 BF2434    Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis x1





70.252 BF1931    Peppered Moth Biston betularia 



70.283 BF1961    Light Emerald Campaea margaritaria




73.317 BF2089    Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis



70.016 BF1713    Riband Wave Idaea aversata



73.001 BF2450    The Spectacle Abrostola tripartita







73.045 BF2289    Knot Grass Acronicta rumicis



1294  Inlaid Grass Veneer Crambus pascuella ABH 63.081  





73.267 BF2160    Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea

Lee Mount -10th July

In among others, a couple of nice moths in the trap this morning.

 True Lover's Knot

 

These three shots below are of the same moth - how different the colour can look depending on their pose and the light.

Burnished Brass

Apple munchers.

Three new ones for me last week all feeding on apple.
Callisto denticulella (mine)
Bohemmania pulverosella (mine)
Apple Pith Moth (below) - took a bit of photographing and positively ID-ing this one. Found at dusk in the garden.

Jerusalem Farm 8th/9th July

We took the kids Wildlife Group for a camp over at Jerusalem Farm. A great day catching butterflies on Saturday and then a moth trap running over night.

Butterflies
1526 Small Skipper
1549 Large White
1590 Red Admiral
1614 Speckled Wood
1626 Meadow Brown
1629 Ringlet (lots again)

Moths
1756 Northern Spinach

1758 Barred straw

1981 Poplar hawkmoth

2008 Coxcombe prominant

2061 Buff ermine

2107 Large yellow underwing

Also had a few we could not identify - even after a couple of hours of looking these are ones I am not sure on.

Wainscot but cannot get it down to individual species

Pretty sure it is a carpet - again not sure

No idea!!

No idea 2!!

Most of the group were really happy with the butterfly catching on the Saturday afternoon and a little quite when we started speaking about moths. However when they saw the poplar hawkmoth and some of the underwings fly off then they soon changed and we had a group pouring over the books to try to identify them. Hope we might have some junior moffers out there. 

Lee Mount - 9th July

One this morning I am struggling with. Initial reaction was Pine Carpet (though I have never seen one other than photo's) - reddish-brown Carpet but not so sure about 'Pine' now I have a photo. Shame the quality of the shot is not good - I had the wrong setting on the camera and it came out really dark so have lightened it up a bit.

Northowram.

Has to be the best year for Ringlets,  they seem to be everywhere this year..Another Common Emerald last thursday.

Lee Mount - 7th and 8th July

4 photos from the trap this morning plus another from 7th.
Not had time to go through all the notes and photos yet but these are the 'special ones' -  for me anyway !

 Ghost Moth (1 of 2 females)

 Gothic

 

 Varied Coronete (c13mm)

I'm pretty sure that's what it is after my first here last year on 27th June 2016 and later confirmed by CF

 

 Smoky Wainscot I think though I'm not all that familiar with this group

 

 

From 7th July - July Highflyer

Carr Hall lane part II

Not much to add to Gordon's post so here's a couple of my favourites.

Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella)

Lots of these swarming around many of the Ash trees there - Pseudargyratoza conwagana.