help in moth i.d please

poor photo quality-it had a rusty colour to it which the pics may not pic up

Blake dean ......NMN(national midge night)

2 million midges
10 Brown Silver Lines
1 small Phoneix
2 Garden carpet
1 Common Carpet
8 Map Winged swift
1 Common Swift
6 Brimstone
1 Ruby Tiger
5 Broom Moth
1 Small Elephant Hawkmoth
3 Scalloped Hazel
1 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Iron Prominent(northern form)
1 Lesser swallow Prominent
1 Coxcombe Prominent
4 Rustic Shoulder Knot
1 Silver Ground Carpet
1 dark Brocade
1 Clouded Border
1 Buff Ermine
1 Small angle Shages
1 Pale Shouldered brocade
Thanks to everyone who braved the elements(more to follow)

B&W to Colour

My last post was of a Green-veined White so this time I thought I would post something which arrived last night form the other extreme of the colour spectrum! Good luck to everyone in Calderdale on NMN

Winston

Only House wood

Managed a trip round my local wood this aft and found 4 speckled woods,2GV White,3 Small White,1 Large White,2 Peacock,3 Small Tortoiseshell,4 Small Heath,1 Red Admiral,1 Comma and a Wall Brown.Amazing what a bit of sunshine brings out.

Pale tussock

Found this hiding under my egg boxes

Despite the rain

Found this on Oak today,poor record shot but any ideas.?

Green-veined White

Don't ignore the Green-veined White! Up close it can be a really beautiful insect. That is if you can get one to sit still for long enough. charlie Streets and I cane across this one near Pecket Well which was a particularly good sitter, just look at those eyes! Winston

Apologies

Hi all
Sorry for my lack of posts recently but Sue and I have now got our static caravan in wales and thus spend all our spare time there. Its a different world for inverts compared to Calderdale, with far more species and numbers seen. Most common larva spotted last week was Drinker Moth, we moved dozens of these from the roads as we cycled round. Lots of adult moths with plenty of carpet sp, and a huge range of micros which I did not manage to sort as I had no gear with me last week. I will be setting up a wildlife blog covering the flora and fauna of the Llyn peninsular as soon as my broadband access is put in place next week and hope to link it with this site.

Bits and Bobbs

A friend of mine on Birdcage lane, halifax sent us this photo yesterday(friday), of a Lime Hawk Moth his wife found at Calderdale Hospital.
Up Staups moor today a few Common Heath moths about on the heather, 2 greenhairstreaks also seen.
Cheers Colin
Hi all, sorry for lack of posts in May but I just dont seem to have been in calderdale that often anyway.
Last nights saw the trap on for the first time in ages and things seem to have picked up a little.2White Ermine.1 Scalloped Hazel (melanic)3 Clouded Bordered Brindle,1 angle shades,2 Common swift,1Shuttle Shaped Dart,2 Rustic shoulder knot,7 Silver Ground carpet,1 Brimstone,1 Spruce Carpet,Common Carpet,1 Knot Grass,1 Small Magpie,2 Ingrailed Clay and a pale shouldered Brocade oh and a reddish Yellow Barred Brindle (thanks Charlie F)
Loads of Nettle Tap(500+) out today and a couple of larvae on Wood sage but not what i was looking for.
Another mention for NMN this Saturday if any one wants a lift or sees us there.

National Moth Night,7th June 08

Just a quick note to let everyone know that myself and Brian leesey will be running a trap at Blake Dean on NMN and all are welcome.Cheers

Help !

I only had one moth last night, hardly suprising really with the strong NE winds, and guess what I have no idea what it is, any ideas?

I'll post some more pics later today

Last Night Moths too

It certainly seems the year for Campion - a new species for me - also the usual hard to i.d. Pug, is this a Currant Pug?

Last Nights moths

A few more moths in the trap last night including this Spectacle,Angle Shades,White Ermine,Shuttle shaped Dart,Campion,Rustic shoulder knot,Garden Carpet and Small phoneix.

Today

1252 Grapholita lunulana(cheers Paul)

Six Spot Burnet catapillar

The Campion

Cromwell Bottom today was a bit cool for moths but found a few Speckled wood and Green Veined Whites.

Scarr Wood LNR

Went down to clear Scarr Wood LNR of litter yesterday, (26 bags removed but that is another story).

Lots of speckled wood, orange tip and whites around at the moment especially down at the bottom in the regeneration area, also possible sighting of a small copper but this was heading away from me and despite clambering over the rocks (with litter pickers and bag in hand) could not get a decent look at it.

If anyone has a chance to have a look down at the bottom of the wood on a sunny day it is well worth it.

Chris

First Butterfly Dates so far

Orange Tip 26th april
Meadow Brown 22nd may
Small Copper 20th May
Peacock 10th Feb
Speckled wood 28th april
Holly Blue 7th May
Comma 28th March
Small tortoiseshell 29th March
Green Hairstreak 2nd May
Large White no date
Small White no date
Green veined White no date
Butterflys recorded so far this year and the first date.If any one can add to this please do.

garden

1 golden y moth
2 large white

Hebden Bridge Foray

On the 20th Charlie Streets and I went for a forray around Hebden Bridge and Pecket Well.

Photo CS

Photo CS

Photo WP

Photo WP

Here is our joint list-

396 Glyphipterix fuscoviridella ~50
1251 Grapholita jungiella 1
1952 Common Heath 1
797 Neofaculta ericetella 1
385 Nettle-tap Anthophila fabriciana 5
391 Cocksfoot moth Glyphipterix simpliciella 7

Possible Emperor moth pupa
Green Hairstreak 15

Also
Orange Tip (m)
Peacock
Small Tortoiseshell

Speckled Wood
Green Veined White

Winston Plowes

Not calderdale

Pearl Bordered Fritillary

Dingy Skipper

Duke of Burgandy
Gait Barrows Nature reaserve near Silverdale at the moment is full of beautiful Butterflys and well worth a day visit if you get the time.As well as the above there were Common Blue,green Haristreak and some beautiful day flying moths Anania funebris the pick of the bunch.

ID help

Small Yellow Underwing ???

Small Copper
First small Coppers today along with Large white and Speckled wood,loads of nettle Tap and Adela reaumurella and this small moth wich i only saw for 30 seconds but it looks like a Small Yellow Underwing.?any ideas