Copley Garden 7/7/18

A nice trapping evening with a few differnet moths and some that I need help identifying.

Large Yellow Underwing - 9
Buff Tip
Snout
Flame - 4
Light Emerald
Flame Shoulder
Common Footman - 5
Swallowtail Moth
Heart & Dart - 7
Silver Y
Cloudered Border
V-Pug
Bird Cherry Ermine - 2
Bramble Spot - 2

Moth 1

Moth 2

Moth 3

Moth 4

Moth 5

Springwood Ave Butterflies - Sat 7th

Large White

Comma

Ringlet

Gatekeeper

Small Tortoiseshell

Green Veined White

Also found the egg below on a willow leaf in Cunnery Wood, any ideas?

Stainland.

I found a moth in the hall a while after I made the last post. Rather than confuse things, I thought I'd give this an entry of it's own.

I'm reasonably sure that the moth is a Eudonia murana, judging by the white spot on it's thorax. I'm happy to be corrected of course.

Eudonia murana.

Stainland.

4 x Marbled Beauties, black/grey form.
1 x Riband Wave, non banded form.
1 x Eudonia sp. (Probably). It's so high up that I can't see much other than size, shape and colour.

Stainland.

For some reason, butterflies have been scarce in our garden this year. We do have plenty flowers, but perhaps will get some butterfly friendly ones for next year. The good news is, we have a lot of bees of various types, as several hoverfly species.

I've seen three Small Tortoiseshells over the last week and three whites. Non of them wanted to settle on any flowers, so I was unable to photograph them. The white I saw today, (and the only one I could ID) was a Spring brood Large White.

Purple Hairstreaks

One or two flitting around in the late morning sunshine yesterday around the pond dipping ponds at Cromwell Bottom. Not very approachable and reluctant to settle for long.

Cold Edge and Ovenden Moor

Yesterday
One Painted Lady bear the former Withens Pub.
Lots of Small Whites mostly heading north west after brief stops mainly on Ragwort and Thistles which are now coming into season - good !
Only one Green-veined White which was surprising.
Ringlets all over the place especially the Cold Edge area. A few Meadow Brown, Large Skippers and a couple of Small Skippers and a few scattered Small Tortoiseshell.
4 Silver-ground Carpet Moths and 2 other medium/large day flying moths which avoided identification unfortunately.

Stainland.

Two Marbled Beauties  today.

1 x Gray, black and white form
1 x Grey, orange/brown and white form. No photos, sorry.

For those who may be interested, I was in Physio at Spire hospital today, they were very pleased with my progress. Afterwards, I decided to walk down to the main road and catch a bus to Halifax. I had dinner in Weatherspoon's, then got a bus back to the village. I wanted to prove to myself that I was getting some independent travel back, I was very pleased with myself.  I'm still in a lot of pain, but at least my strength is returning. Onward and upward!

Lee Mount - 5th July

Amongst others - three nice moths from this morning.

 Common Wainscot (and not Smoky ?)

 

After studying the Sycamore earlier in the week I knew this was one below was different (but similar), slightly smaller and darker than Sycamore and wings more rounded and showing the pale area just below the kidney mark. pretty sure this is another first for here - must check!

 Poplar Grey

 

Another similar grey moth below but smaller than Poplar Grey and slightly different markings with the two chalky white spots.

Knot Grass

Lee Mount

Been struggling with this Pug from 1st July - they don't seem to give many obvious pointers - just subtle ones !
Wondering if this one could be Wormwood Pug ??

 

This one below - have had a small number of these this last week and not sure of identification ?

Wondering about Clepsis consimilana - it's about the same size as a Green Oak Tortrix

 

Moth Identity please

I saw this moth mid-morning and again at 10pm. I thought it was a different species at first but realised it had the same markings. It was only a couple of foot from earlier in the day.

                                                        Beautiful ruff around its neck.

Stainland.

Hi

I know this post is a a bit off the mark, but I think it's worth alerting people about. I was looking through last year's Norfolk photos and came across a (poor) photo I took of the Rosemary Beetle - Chrysolina americana at Norfolk Lavender.

It's an imported pest and becoming a problem in the UK. The RHS have an informative page on it and a distribution map. There is also a link to a survey, in case you find one of the little beasts. I filled it in last year. They don't reply, but don't be put off.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=555

Rosemary Beetle - Chrysolina americana. 

2018 so far...bit of a bumper..

Highlights so far....After a slow start....
local firsts....
Grey Shoulder Knot
Marsh Pug
Sycamore
Acleris logiana
Anania perlucidalis

Scarce local species

Bloodvein
Red necked Footman
Dingy Shears
Clay triple lines
Barred Yellow
Common Emerald
White Satin

And 23 species of Butterfly so far..............

Lee Mount - 2nd July

It's getting more difficult to catch up with the blog and identification with a good selection of moths the last few nights.
4 here that were nice surprises. This first one definitely to check please.

 (thinking Sycamore rather than Poplar Grey but have never seen either previously) I have some more pictures !

 

 Common Lutestring

 

 Common Quaker - if it is it seems a very late individual ?

Green Arches

Northowram today

                                                                    Ragwort

                                                                   Small Skipper

A great day today hot sunshine and lots of Butterfly's on the wing . Ragwort is now out in full bloom and looks like Cinnabar will have a good year.  I have never seen as many Ringlets and by late afternoon numbers were 60 + , Small Tortoiseshell 50+ , Meadow Brown 50 + , Small and Large Skippers 5 of each . The week ahead looks much the same........

Cromwell Bottom Moth Night June 30th

A great night was had for the eight or so people who attended.


Some highlights here: https://cromwellbottom.blogspot.com/

Butterfly update

 Brian reports Purple Hairstreak this week in Todmorden and Gatekeepers (22nd and 23rd species for the year) were out in good numbers today at Cromwell Bottom also flying today lots of Ringlet , Meadow Brown , Small Skipper , Large and Small Whites..Northowram today at least 10 Small Tortoiseshell ...........(White Letter Hairstreak , Dark Green Fritillary and Clouded Yellow to look for...)

Cromwell bottom

Quick update from last night........
Blackneck ,
Common Emerald (4+) ,
White Satin
Suspected (5+)
Dingy Footman
Buff Footman
Dingy Shears
Water Veneer ( 3+)
more to follow ...Thanks to Charlie and BARRY...............

                                                           White Satin

                                                       Dingy Shears

Stainland.

One Riband Wave -non banded form.

Butterfly records - Cunnery Wood & Ogden Water

Cunnery Wood & meadows 28.6.18
Comma
Meadow Brown
Ringlet
5 spot burnet
Small skipper
Large Skipper
Common Heath




Ogden 29.6.18 - around edge of reservoir
Large White
Red Admiral
Comma
Meadow Brown
Small Skipper
Large Skipper
Ringlet

MOTH NIGHT AT CROMWELL BOTTOM

A reminder there's a trapping session at Cromwell Bottom tomorrow (SAT 30th). I'll probably be there from 8.30pm onwards searching for moths before the light goes on. It's a leisurely affair with tables and chairs around the trap and refreshments are available inside where we examine the moths throughout the night. Arrive from dusk onwards, if the gates are locked just give us a shout.


OTHER NEWS: Norland yesterday.

Surprised to find some eriocrania mines still tenanted as we're almost in to July. The larva has two cloudy projections just behind the head making this E.sparrmannella.

Kept an eye out for grass mining elachistas and found this E.triatomea straight away. As much of the moor's plateau is now covered with Purple Moor Grass surely it's worth a look for Elachista subalbidella at some point.

Apple Fruit Moth - Argyresthia conjugella resting on Rowan - a first for me.

Also:

Northern Spinach x 2

Epinotion trigonella

Orthotaenia undulana

Mompha raschkiella

Lee Mount - 29th June

One from this morning, in the trap and a new one for here. A nice orange looking moth with hooked forewing tip, think it must be a Clay Triple-lines.

Stainland.

1 x Riband Wave - Banded form. No photo.

David,  Thanks for the nice comment on my last post. I'm recovering well now, just a little weak yet, but I always bounce back.

All Good in Cunnery Wood Tues 26th June 2018

Tuesday   26th  June  2018

Weather : Outstanding 18 - 20 o Dry Humidity Low Preceding days Hot . Moon - Full

MV 125 W

Woodland Mixed decisuous Oak , Bird Cherry, adjacent meadow Adjacent pond

Other Entomology:  Orange Ladybird , Abundant Caddis x7 species

Two Present CD , GW ~ Apologies not advertised last minute decision Thanks to GW for transport

Notes  
Moth For ID means unknown for identification
Moth TBC means The embedded image contains a plausible ID TBC

More to follow in this post

ABH  16.001   BF424      Bird-cherry Ermine Yponomeuta evonymella

ABH  73.291   BF2199    Common Wainscot Mythimna pallens

ABH  72.045   BF2050    Common Footman Eilema lurideola
ABH  73.317   BF2089    Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis

ABH  73.333   BF2120    Ingrailed Clay Diarsia mendica

ABH  70.283   BF1961    Light Emerald Campaea margaritaria

ABH  70.252   BF1931    Peppered Moth Biston betularia

ABH  70.207   BF1887    Clouded Border Lomaspilis marginata

ABH  70.277   BF1955    Common White Wave Cabera pusaria

ABH  73.016   BF2442    Beautiful Golden Y Autographa pulchrina

ABH  73.342   BF2107    Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba  

ABH  49.059   BF1033    Green Oak Tortrix Tortrix viridana

ABH  63.067   BF1338    Eudonia lacustrata

ABH  70.142   BF1858    The V-Pug Chloroclystis v-ata

ABH  70.258   BF1937    Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria
ABH  49.294   BF1175    Bramble Shoot Moth Notocelia uddmanniana
ABH  73.173   BF2337    Marbled Minor Oligia strigilis  (Agg )
ABH  73.176   BF2340    Middle-barred Minor Oligia fasciunculaABH  70.097    ABH  70.097   BF1764    Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata
ABH  20.021   BF420      Cherry Fruit Moth Argyresthia pruniellaa
ABH  49.269   BF1197    Eucosma campoliliana or (Argyresthia semifusca)
ABH  49.125   BF0970    Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana

ABH  49.269 BF1197    Eucosma campoliliana










ABH  49.294   BF1175    Bramble Shoot Moth Notocelia uddmanniana









ABH  70.142   BF1858    The V-Pug Chloroclystis v-ata



ABH  49.125   BF0970    Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana



Celypha lacunana.








2120 Ingrailed Clay Diarsia mendica ABH 73.333



1713 Riband Wave Idaea aversata ABH 70.016

Butterfly update

The continued hot weather has seen a large emergence of butterfly's this week with Meadow Browns , Ringlets , Large and small skippers all about in good numbers. Small Tortoiseshell and Large Whites have been seen in increasing numbers at Northowram in the last few days.
 White Letter Hairstreak , Purple Hairstreak , Gatekeeper are still to be seen this year.

Stainland.

One Common Footman. I know they keep getting posted, but looking at my records, these are the best shots I've taken. Conveniently, it was at shoulder height. I've yet to see any other Footman but the Common one, I live in hope.

Common Footman.

Common Footman detail.