Luddenden - 19th July

This afternoon

2 Gatekeepers just upstream, first field on the left after the church. (Its a shame parts of the field have been sprayed with selective weedkiller)!!

Also 3 Commas and a good show of all three 'Whites' with a few Ringlets, Meadow Browns. 3 Small Skippers kept coming back to the edges of  a  muddy pool.

Surprisingly, no Small Tort's or Speckled Woods !

Lee Mount - a very flighty Painted Lady yesterday afternoon on a flowering Hebe and a Comma this afternoon on the Sweet Williams

Comma

17th July - Mytholmroyd - 5th record for Yorkshire!!??

 228 moths of 69 species in a crazy night in my trap 

1. Phoenix
2. Scalloped Oak
3. Buff arches 3
4. Bee moth
5. Fan foot
6. Straw dot 6
7. Crambus pascuella
8. Clepsis consimilana
9. Knot grass
10. Muslin footman 2
11. Flame 5
12. Garden pebble
13. LYU 15
14. Common Footman 4
15. Eudonia lacustrata 17
16. Water veneer 4
17. Blastobasis adustella 4
18. Marbled minor 22
19. True lovers knot  18
20. Dark arches 4
21. GGV 5
22. Riband wave 8
23. Carcina quercana
24. Common rustic agg
25. Peppered 4
26. Cloaked minor 3
27. Celypha lacunana
28. Narrow winged pug
29. Bird cherry ermine 16
30. Northern Spinach
31. Eudonia truncicolella
32. Eudonia mercurella 3
33. Crambus lathoniellus
34. Large fruit tree tortrix
35. Heart and dart 2
36. Aproaerema anthyllidella 2
37. Swallow tailed 3
38. Brown house
39. Broad bordered yellow underwing
40. Lesser swallow prominent
41. Common wave 2
42. Agraphila straminella 6
43. Celypha striana
44. Purple clay 4
45. Crambus perlella 13
46. Coleophora sp 2
47. Antler 2
48. Bryotropha affinis
49. Snout
50. Green Pug 2
51. Rustic/uncertain
52. Ypsolopha ustella
53. Poplar Hawk
54. Lesser yellow underwing
55. Scarce silver lines
56. Diamondback 2
57. Blastobasis lacticolella
58. Common wainscot
59. Ingrailed clay 3
60. Scrobipalpa acuminatella
61. Epinotia ramella
62. Swammerdamia caesiella 3
63. Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
64. Bud Moth
65. Paraswammerdamia nebulella
66. Apple Fruit moth
67. Elachista albidella???
68. Ancylis achatana
69. Slender Brindle

The Elachista has 3 question marks next to it. This is because it would be a 5th record for Yorkshire, but requires dissection. However, the habitat makes it more likely than the equally rare alternatives!

Scarce silver lines

Lesser swallow prominent

Probable Elachista albidella

Probable Elachista albidella

                Probable Elachista albidella

Dark Green Fritillary

Spotted on Kennel Lane up above the Alma Inn this morning on thistle, I am 99% certain thats what it was as I have seen them in North Wales. It kept getting buzzed by a Small Tortoiseshell so was not still long enough for a photo, will try again later and tomorrow. Do you want a GR for this Andy ?

Lee Mount - 19th July

Quite a few returners from the last few days I suspect so I have ignored them even though I moved them some distance away !

New ones

Carcina quercana x 1

True Lover's Knot x 3

Buff Arches x 1

Barred Straw x 1

Cinnabar x 1

Bee Moth x 1

Dun-bar x 1

Barred Straw

True Lover's Knot

Lee Mount 18th July

 From the overnight trap this morning.

A 'poser' has taken me (on and off all day) to try sort this first one out. Approx 10mm wing length. Couldn't be sure if it was a micro (Udea type) or a macro. 

Finally got it - yippee..... and double checked it on Yorkshire Moths (which included previous photos from Andy -thanks). A first for me.

Muslin Footman - Nudaria mundana

Also (among a good number of others this morning)

Dunbar x 1 first for the year

July Highflyer x 1

Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger

 

13th July - Mytholmroyd

 Few days late updating here (just sorting a couple of micros from photos, but heres what I trapped on the 13th...116 of 52. Blackneck and Lempke's Gold Spot personal highlights. The gold spot caused a bit of ID debate, but more features pro Lempke's in my opinion, and forewing length only 14mm. Open to further opinions though. Full list below photos. Trapping again tonight!!

Blackneck

Lempke's Gold Spot

Lempke's Gold Spot

1. GGV 13
2. H&D 4
3. True lovers knot 9
4. Ingrailed Clay 2
5. Common footman 7
6. Peppered 6
7. Foxglove pug
8. Purple clay 2
9. Common pug
10. Eudonia lacustrata 2
11. Green arches
12. Brown House moth
13. Snout 2
14. Buff arches 3
15. LYU 6
16. Marbled minor 4
17. Dark arches 6
18. Small angle shades
19. Heart and club
20. Elderberry pearl
21. Flame 4
22. Poplar hawk
23. BLBE
24. Crambus perlella
25. Elephant
26. DS pug
27. Blackneck
28. Dusky brocade
29. Swallow tailed
30. Light arches
31. Fan foot
32. Celypha lacunana
33. Map winged Swift
34. Common Rustic agg
35. Coleophora sp
36. Cloaked minor
37. Paraswammerdamia nebulella
38. Bud Moth
39. Clepsis consimilana
40. Blastobasis lacticolella
41. Riband wave
42. Antler
43. Eudonia mercurella
44. Spilonota laricana
45. Marbled orchard tortrix
46. Celypha lacunana
47. Swammerdamia caesiella
48. Clouded bordered brindle
49. Mottled rustic
50. Phycita roborella
51. Lempke's gold spot
52. Blastobasis adustella

Small Skipper 

An early morning small skipper still with the dew on it. Taken today 17-07-21, Boothtown.

Castle Carr Road, Wainstalls

This afternoon - hot and sticky - butterflies all along both sides of the roadside from Wainstalls to the far end and return - impossible to count.

In order of frequency, guestimates only.........

Meadow Brown - 100+

Ringlet - 100+

Small Heath - 50+

Small Skipper -25+

Large Skipper 15+

Small Tortoiseshell - 15+

Small White - 1

Peacock - 1 large caterpillar on a grass stem

Also at least one Six-spot Burnet Moth ? - still to check photos in detail.

Northowram Fields today

Meadow brown 50 + 

Small Heath x 1 

Speckled Wood x 2

White - letter Hairstreak x 2

Large White x 1

Red Admiral x 1

Large Skipper x 3 

Small Tortoiseshell x 12

Ringlet x 10 

 

Cat's.....

Found these two recently... I thought adult moths were tricky but these are even more so. Checked them in the new Field Guide but I'm not much wiser on identification

All phone shots

The nearest I can get with this one today at Ogden c30mm on Billberry is Hebrew Character. Some things add up against the Field Guide but identification for me is certainly not conclusive.

This one below was on Ragwort c25mm on Castle Carr Road last week. I was thinking Ruby Tiger but I'm not convinced (maybe not hairy enough) and when blown up there are a row of white dots on its side. I'm still pondering this one !

Follow on from the previous post from CS.

One from 11th July in Lee Mount that CF checked over and suggested 'an odd looking moth thinking one of the variants of Dusky Brocade'

ID Please

 Somebody put me out of my misery - FW 18mm. From Luddenden Dean.

SUNDAY BIG BUTTERFLY COUNT AT CROMWELL BOTTOM

 Meet Sunday 11 o'clock at the cabin at Cromwell Bootom for this years big butterfly count , I have 4 different Clearwing lures to try and should be a great day for Butterflys will do a figure of 8 around  North loop and etc........would be great to see old and new faces ...cheers all...

Stainland.

 A new to me moth this morning, a Common Emerald. It's been around for a while, having lost it's chequered border. It's green colour has faded a lot too. Still it's nice to have a record of it.

Also:

 

2 x Garden Carpets

1 x Riband Wave - Banded (the same one as yesterday, with a damaged wing)

1 x Brimstone (been here 4 days now)

 1 x Snout (different to yesterday's, this one has it wings in perfect condition)

3 x Marbled Beauties (from yesterday)

Common Emerald

And another one I have struggled with. I always seem to have problems with this sort of moth. My best guess is either; Agriphila inquatella, 0R Chrysoteuchia culmella. It's quite worn, You can see a faint brown line near the end of it's (tail). The grey area could be worn away, or the remains of a lighter colour area. Does anyone know what this is please?

Agriphila inquatella, 0R Chrysoteuchia culmella

ID needed

Stainland. 10 & 12 July.

 This is a list of moths I've had at the house for the 10th and 12 of July. There were no moths on the 11th. The 10th was a good night, I was busy taking photos of them from 2:30 until 3:30 am. Today I spent 5 hours trying to ID some of the moths I'd not seen before. I'm more than a bit frazzled now. Those I'm not sure of, or I think are of interest, will be at the end. (Some very poor images here).

 

11th July: (24 moths, a record for me)

2 x small Magpies.

2 x Brimstone

6 x Marbled Beauties (see photo comparison below)

5 x Blastobasis lactocollela

1 x Snout 

1 x Swallowtail (worn and with wing damage)

1 x Riband Wave - Non Banded)

1 x Bee Moth

1 x Common Footman

1 x Brown House Moth

1 x Current Pug (new to me)

1 x Flame (new to me) TBC

1 x No ID (see photo) TBC

There were 3 or 4 larger moths flying around too. Non of them settled, they just kept coming back to tease me.

12th July:

1 x Riband Wave -Banded

 

I managed to get a photo of the snout flying away from me, just before it landed:-

 

 

Snout flying away

 

Marbled Beauties, 2 Different colours. The brown was much bigger than the grey. Some greys were also bigger than this one. Another Marbled Beauty was a mixture of the grey and the brown liveries.

Current Pug

 

I spent a long time trying to ID this next one, I hope I got it right.

 

Flame

After going through all my moth books 3 times, and looking on line, I wasn't able to get a match.

ID needed please

If I got any of these wrong, please correct me. 

Right. I'm off to run my head under the tap, then have a couple of stiff malt whiskies.

 

 

 

 

 

Mirey Wall farm, Sowerby

 Loads of expired adult Common Clothes Moths in a rug at Peachy Steve's farm today. Maybe a first record we have for Calderdale?????

Around 60 species to light including a Rufous Minor - a dissected male.

7 new species for me!

Castle Carr Road and Saltonstall - 10th July

This afternoon - very little sunshine but it was very warm and the still uncut, dry fields were perfect and pretty much alive with butterflies with plenty thistles and ragwort etc along the lanes.

Meadow Brown was the commonest (impossible to count) with Ringlets, Small Tortoiseshells and a few Small Heaths in among. 2 Large Skippers and c 8 Small Skippers and best of all a Common Blue showing well and more or less staying in and around the same spot. No Whites.

Moths included one each of Yellow Shell, Silver-ground Carpet, Latticed Heath and  4 Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet Moths in close proximity on Creeping Thistle heads.

Lee Mount - 10th July

 This morning

Coxcomb Prominent x 1

Light Emerald x 1

Riband Wave x 2

Common Lutestring x 1

Green Oak Tortrix x 3

Snout x 1

Green Pug x 1 (well faded but still  a hint of green in places)

Heart and Dart x 1

Buff Arches x 1

Uncertain x 1

Large Yellow Underwing x 1

Hawthorn Moth x 1

+ a few others and some micros etc still to sort through...and the recent Varied Coronet is still present

Buff Arches

Buff Arches

Common Lutestring

Coxcomb Prominent

Green Pug

Snout

9th July - Mytholmroyd

I was in a rush this morning so didn't have time to identify many micros and worn macros, meaning I unfortunately had to ignore about 7 or 8 moths, alongside 5 that flew off

However, despite this, I was shocked to see my biggest ever total of 160 moths of 60 species

Again, not much time for photos unfortunately, but snapped a few

Green Arches

Burnished Brass

Coxcomb Prominemt

 

Rough list below, though a bit of sorting still to do:

Peppered 13

Heart and Dart 9

Garden Grass Veneer 20

True lovers knot 6

Common Wainscot

Common rustic agg

Common footman 3

Snout 2

Dark arches 12

Small elephant

Marbled minor agg 11

Buff arches 6

Elachista argentella

Foxglove pug

Riband wave 7

Eudonia lacustrata 4

Burnished brass

Common Marbled Carpet

Rustic/uncertain 3

Thistle ermine 3

Middle barred minor 2

Brimstone 4

Elderberry Pearl

Celypha lacunana 2

Light emerald 2

Barred fruit tree tortrix

Swallow tailed moth

Eudonia pallida

Flame 7

Dusky brocade 

Pseudogaryzota Congwana

Coxcomb prominent

Bright Line Brown Eye 3

Small angle shades 2

Clouded silver

Marbled beauty

Cabbage (to confirm)

Hediya pruniana 

Common Wave 

Common white wave

Small magpie 

Green pug

Bee moth

Plain wave

Fan foot

Large Yellow Underwing

Elephant hawkmoth

Straw dot

Angle shades

Green carpet

Beautiful golden y

Smoky wainscot

Double striped pug

Plume (to identify)

Broom

Ingrailed clay

Knot grass (to confirm)

Green Arches

Grapholita jungiella

Ogden area

Syke Lane fields and Back Lane fields still uncut. A lovely warm sunny afternoon and the meadows were alive with Meadow Browns (impossible to count). Also a good show of Ringlets, a number of Small Tortoiseshells and a few Small Heaths.

Best of the afternoon was a Beautiful Yellow Underwing - camera wouldn't focus or maybe I wasn't quick enough the more likely explanation. 

Found it at the top end of  Ogden's White Wall End near the bridge across the gully. It was resting on a bracken frond then it flew around us for a moment or two but it wouldn't settle. Only my second one - stunning !

Lee Mount - 9th July

Flame x 1

Varied Coronet x 1 (this looks a darker individual from 2nd /3rd July) They like the Sweet Williams !

Gothic x 1

Clouded Border x 1

Marbled Beauty x 4

Carcina quercana x 1

Unidentified Pugs x 2 (well faded)

Also this micro - could it be Eucosma cana ? (any thoughts welcome)

Gothic

Varied Coronet

7th July

Map-winged Swift

Swallow-tailed Moth

Beautiful Golden Y

Common Footman

True Lover’s Knot

Buff Arches

Elephant Hawkmoth

61 moths of 30 species in the garden trap on my first night back home from Uni Fan foot, Small fan foot, Brimstone 2, The flame 4, Riband wave, Garden grass veneer 14, Crambus pascuella, Snout, Heart and dart 2, LYU 4, True lovers knot 5, Garden Pebble, Marbled minor 3, Purple clay, Dusky Brocade 3, Smoky wainscot, Beautiful Golden Y, Clouded bordered brindle 2, Marbled orchard tortrix, Brindled Pug, Opostega salaciella, Bryotropha affinis, Map-winged swift, Eudonia lacustrata 2, Common footman, Elephant hawkmoth, Buff Arches, Swallow-tailed Moth, Barred fruit tree tortrix, Double-striped Pug,

Drinker

 A very smart Drinker in Todmorden last night...Thanks AArak and Cath Baker....Also  a Dark Green Fritillary at Cromwell Bottom this morning. and a White letter Hairstreak yesterday at Hebden