Ogden - Hebble Brook area

I thought maybe a chance of Beautiful Yellow Underwing this afternoon but that was not to be. The only moth I found was a Brown Silver-line and some Garden Grass Veneers.

Despite the breeze it was warm with lots of sunshine and plenty of butterfly's in sheltered spots down near the golf course. These included good numbers of Meadow Browns, Ringlets and Small Heaths, One each of Red Admiral and Small Tortoiseshell and 3 Small Whites. A few Large Skippers (mainly on brambles) but no sign of Small Skippers.

The best was this one - a nice surprise ...

Common Blue (female)

Hummingbird Hawk

Not sure if anyone else has these yet but we have had one feeding in our Garden and Lower Burnt moor for the last two days. Its mainly feeding on Catmint (Nepeta sp) and Red Valarian. I was amazed to see it feeding on Red Valarian in strongs winds 15/20mph this morning and having no trouble in holding position whilst hovering

Hag Lane - Ploughcroft

Painted Lady - two fluttering around a dusty track together - but could only get a photo of one of them this afternoon (26th.)

Just a short walk around, pretty cloudy but very warm. with a >S F3

Ringlet x 6

Meadow Brown x 15

Yellow Shell moths x 2

Painted Lady

Yesterday the two Painted Lady's were in the same spot - hot and sunny late afternoon.

Ringlets, Meadow Browns, Small Tortoiseshells, Speckled Woods and Large Skippers x 2 on brambles.

Light Emerald

Moorside, Ovenden 25-06-2022

Shibden Valley

 23 June: Red Admiral 1

Stainland..

 Just one Buff Ermine today.

Buff Ermine

Stainland.

1 x Heart and Dart 

Without looking through passed records, I think this may be my first sight of one. It didn't stay long enough for a photo, but I did get a good look at it.

Garden Moths VC63 - Summer Solstice

 Temp Circa 12o   Still. Previous evenings cool. Blue Light Actinic

Images Here 

ABH 70.252 Peppered Moth Biston betularia (x1)

ABH 70.226 Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata (x1)

ABH 73.317 Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis  (12)

ABH 70.037  Clay Triple-lines Cyclophora linearia  (x1

)

ABH 73.162 Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha (x2)

ABH 73.342 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (x3)

ABH 72.019 Buff Ermine Spilosoma lutea (x3)

ABH 72.024 Ruby Tiger Phragmatobia fuliginosa(x1)

ABH 72.045 Common Footman Eilema lurideola (x1)

ABH 73.267 Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea  (x1)

ABH  70.277 Common White Wave Cabera pusaria (x1)

+ 4 others to download

Beacon Hill

Painted Lady 1

Stainland.

 1 x Brimstone Moth

Beacon Hill

Large Skipper 1,  Small Heath 2,  Meadow Brown 4,  Small Skipper 1,  Speckled Wood 2

Claremount area

Took a walk along Hag Lane this afternoon leading on to Turner Lane and the hillsides above Claremount. Cool and overcast as I arrived and not much doing, but the sun came out and the temperature lifted considerably.  On the hillsides lots of fields still uncut, fantastic looking meadows. Butterflies did not disappoint, with around forty.

Small Heath x 12

Meadow Brown x 10

Speckled Wood x 6

Large Skipper x 6

Small Tortoiseshell x 2

One each of Red Admiral, Painted Lady, Green-veined White, Wall

Moths included Chimney Sweepers x 6, Small Magpie x 1 and a scattering of Nettle-taps on a number of nettle and bramble areas.

Sunny Bank (Southowram)

 I saw 6 of these. Yellow Shell?

Lee Mount - 17th June

 Best return this year so far - 18 species - 33 moths. Still room for improvement.

Phone shot of a Gold Spot which I found on the wall later on this morning. Don't think it's a Lempke's.

Best of the others...............

Cabbage Moth, Turnip Moth, Clouded-bordered Brindle, Setaceous Hebrew Charter, Middle-barred Minor, Flame, Buff Arches and Cypress Tip Moth (Argyresthia cupressella).

Still sorting through the photos.

Also in the garden this morning - one each of Wall and Meadow Brown butterflies and a Large White.

 

Red Necked Footman

                                                         Pebble Prominent

                                                       Ruby Tiger

 Very pleased to get this cracking Red necked Footman last night , plenty other moths about , Displaying Ghost Moths in the field and 150 + moths in the trap...

This afternoon  i put out the Large Red belted Clearwing lure , checked it a few time with no luck but mid afternoon 1 Large Red belted Clearwing   was flying about the greenhouse , I could see it but was unable to get a photo..will keep trying...

Vapourer going on.....

So I have been seeing lots of Vapourer egg batches on heather of late 20 +) and  decided I would try and rear them as ,I have never seen a Vapourer adult male flying high up on the moors , I just wanted to be sure. WHen they hatched I was away and the moved from the jam jar onto Julias house plant and started eating the leaves straight away much to Julia's disapproval. .LOL They are all safe now eating sallow and are growing fast...LOL

 

Lee Mount - 16th June

 Struggling with this first one, always do with these till I have a more time! It's so well marked, 18mm, I should know what this is !!!

Also this morning....

Small Phoenix x 1

Tachystola acroxantha x 4

Light-brown Apple-moth x 4

Heart and Dart x 1

Small Phoenix in the Yew

Lee Mount - 15th June

Still, not a lot. 

Clouded-bordered Brindle x 1

Large Yellow Underwing x 1 (first this year)

Heart and Dart x 1

Common Marbled Carpet x 1

Brimstone Moth x 1

Clouded-bordered Brindle

Broadhead Clough 13th June

 Late evening visit 'birding' mainly, but also came across .....midges in abundance..

Chimney Sweeper x 1

Yellow Shell x 1

Silver-ground Carpet x 4

A good number of pale moths in flight, unidentified but no sign of Ghost Moths, where I've had them previously, by 22:30.

Swales Moor

An interesting hour or so late morning along Ringby Lane. Mainly overcast with a few spells of short sunshine. Quite windy but warm in a few sheltered spots.

Small Heath x 2 but both were camera shy !

Large Skipper x 3 of (upper and underside)

Meadow Brown x 1

Mother Shipton x 1

Wall x 2 of 

At home the light trap only produced one Pug species as yet unidentified.

MOTH BREAKFAST AT PEACHY STEVE'S

There will be one (possibly two) traps run at Steve's Mirey Wall farm near Sowerby this Friday night.

The traps will be inspected on Saturday morning 18th June at 8.00am.
So if anyone would like to come along and help ID some moths 😊 please leave a message or we may start without you.
It won't be a lengthy process as there is a HSS walk planned for 10.00am.
Last July I saw 7 new species so the site has potential!

Ogden

This morning I was hoping conditions would be right to find some Mother Shiptons' along the side of the golf course where I've had them before. Not  a sign - just too windy apart from 3 Silver-ground Carpets and two Common Heath in a sheltered spot. Also another Wall butterfly resting on a dusty track - but no other butterflies either.

At home - still really poor here with just two overnight moths - Heart and Dart x 1 and a Tachystola acroxantha x 1.

Norcliffe Lane

Speckled Wood 2,  Orange Tip 1 male

June so far in Luddenden 

Its been steady in Luddenden this month with reasonable amounts of Moths nightly, highlights were another Pale Prominent on the 5th and these two last night

Alder Moth - 1st record here

                                            

                                                           Beautiful Snout- 8th record here

plus all the usual suspects for this time of year

Lee Mount - 9th June

I can't get to grips with this one from yesterday - any thoughts ?

Nearest I can get is Dusky Brocade..........

Stainland.

 Two moths;

1 x Currant Pug

1 x Garden Carpet

Currant Pug

Garden Carpet

Swales Moor etc 8th June

 Ringby Lane - at least 4 Wall butterflies this morning and a single Painted Lady on the top.

Another Wall at Withens Clough Reservoir this afternoon was the only butterfly. 

Stainland.

Two moths today, one from our doorway, the second one, on Carr Hall Lane this afternoon. (Shown In order of apperance.)

Common Garden Carpet

Silver Ground Carpet

Beacon Hill

Brimstone moth

 

Swales Moor area 3rd June

Early evening - very warm and sunny along Bradford Old Road towards Claremount. We immediately started coming across Wall butterflies along the roadside walls, obviously the stone was very warm after the heat of the day. Unprecedented, Walls are usually quite scarce around Calderdale but this area is usually quite good for them.

Wall x 10 including pairs spiralling, territoriality or pairing.

Painted Lady x 1 resting along a dusty track

Small Tortoiseshell x 5 including a pair copulating

Photos taken on the phone but they didn't come out well in the bright sunlight.

Ringby Lane moths ! - 2nd June

Three day flying moths puzzled me.

30+ Common Heaths around the heather/bilberry west slope were a bit easier to identify !.

Small Yellow Underwing - thanks Andy - a new one for me !

I think this is on the seed head of a Plantain

Grapholita lunulana 

And this one below gave me the runaround, a blighter to get decent photos but good enough - Marsh Pug - also checked with CF . Thanks Charlie.

Swales Moor - Ringby Lane - 2nd June

 A really nice warm sunny morning to start with up there.

I was surprised with the number of Wall butterfly's amounting to 23 sightings with a count estimate of at least 9 individuals along the length of the lane and in and around the top field.

Also seen Small Tortoiseshell x 3, Peacock x 2, Small Copper x 2, Small Heath x 1 and 2 unidentified 'whites'.

Another Wall was also found along Castle Carr Road this afternoon but no sign of any Green Hairstreaks in the usual places.

Just one moth in the trap this morning

Campion

Ogden (Lower Brockholes and Hebble Brook)

Not  a bad morning for butterflies and just a few day-flying moths. A little more sunshine would have helped but it was warmer than of late.

Red Admiral x 1 (on Ragged Robin)

Small Heath x 1 (on the heath-land lower end of golf course)

Green Hairstreak x 1

Orange-tip x 12...

Green-veined White x 6

Large White x 1

Small White x 4

Several 'whites' unidentified.

Small Heath

Moths

Common Heath x 10+

Nettle-tap - numerous on the nettles

Silver -ground Carpet x 2

Stainland.

I had a nice surpise this morning. Inside the hall was a Cinnabar moth. I found one last year at Hollins, I only got poor photos. Today I got a good shot, before releasing it outside.

Total moths for today.

1 x Blastobasis lacticolella  (poor photo)

1 x Brimstone (Perhaps the same one as on the 30th of May, it's impossible to tell.)

1 x Cinnabar

Cinnabar

Lee Mount

 Still quiet this last week or so and not a lot to report at all.

This is the best.......yesterday morning 30th May

Green Silver-lines

Also recently...................

V-Pug x 1

Cabbage Moth x 1

Spectacle x 2

Brimstone Moth x 1

Common Swift x 1

Scalloped Hazel x 1

Garden Carpet x 1

Common White Wave x 1 (22nd)

Heart and Dart x 1 (20th)

Hopefully get some warmer nights later this week ...!