Last night

Hebrew Character x 9
Early Grey x 4
Common Quaker x 2
Clouded drab x 1
Brindled Pug x 1
Early Tooth - striped x 1

Rishworth Last Nights Moths

I put the trap out last night as there was 3c extra in temperature and Wednesday night looks v good  I got.....

3 Hebrew Character
1 Small Quaker
1 Brindled Pug
1 Clouded Drab

Northowram today ( frozen this morning)

100 + Dyseriocrania  subpurpurella today in local Oak wood flying in the sun  , first Speckled Wood ,Orange tip , Small White , Peacock and 10 + Small Tortoiseshell......

Rishworth Butterflies.

An orange tip and some Small Torts out today

Stainland.

Down in Robber Dodge this afternoon;

2 X Small Tortoishells.
2 X  Orange tips, my first this year. One was noticeably bigger than the other.

Rishworth - Angle Thorns

That title doesn't sound right,, you'll work the pun out when you read this. quite a selection last night.... Any comments v welcome

I got.....

Early Thorn x1
Twin Spot Quaker x2
Angle Shades x1
Engrailed x1
Common Quaker x14
Hebrew Character x16
Clouded Drab x2
Brindled Pug x2
Double Striped Pug x1
Mottled Grey x2
Early Tooth Striped x1
Small Quaker x4


Also a Speckled Wood here today....

Lee Mount 10th April

Last nights catch plus others in the trap this morning.
V-pug x 1
Double-striped Pug x 3
Brindled Pug x 2
Twenty-plumed Moth x 1
White-shouldered Housemoth x 1
Early Grey x 1
Common Quaker x 22
Small Quaker x 2
Hebrew Character x 1
Chestnut x 1
Diurnia fagella x 1
Dyseriocrania subpurpurella x 1
Oak Nycteoline x 3 (these had me confused for a while - it don't take much - thought they were Mouse Moths at first but it's too early for them !

 Brindled Pug with a distinctive mark on the left wing - should know this if it turns up again !

 Common Quaker - quite a dark individual but I can't turn it into anything else.

 Common Quaker selection + Hebrew Character and Early Grey

 Dyseriocrania subpurpurella (I think)

 Oak Nycteoline 2 of 3 - the other had been eaten by a spider this morning leaving just the wings

 Small Quaker

V-Pug

Pine Beauty

Found this handsome little moth in my attic just now. Must have snuck in last night at some point - first time I've seen one in Sowerby Bridge.

Rishworth - Last night's moths.

I did decently again last night and got....

Agonopterix Heracliana x1 different from the other nights because this one was darker
Common Quaker x28
Oak Beauty x2
ID X3 I'll put pics on later all the same species.
Small Quaker x21
Hebrew Character x5
Early Tooth Striped x2
Brindled Pug x4
Clouded Drab x4
Early Grey x1

                                                 Oak Beauty

I thought  this was a Mottled Grey but it was a bit green-ish and was more hesitant to fly off than most other Geometrids so any ideas highly appreciated. 

                                                                                                                                               Also anyone  who is on the Calderdale Wildlife blog please report a Bee Fly from Rishworth on behalf of myself.

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A great night in Luddenden

Brindled Pug  11
V-Pug        1
Autumn Green Carpet  2
Early Thorn  1 (3 yesterday)
Purple Thorn  1
Common Quaker  30
Small Quaker  12
Hebrew Character  5
Twin-spot Quaker  3
Early Grey 1

Purple Thorn

Autumn Green Carpet

Brindled Pug

Rishworth - Some nice Butterflies!

Had plenty of Small Tortoiseshells and Peacocks today in the garden. It was also nice to see Orange Tip, a nice early record for the higher ground here and Comma. Netted was a Green Veined White which was very nice to see on the wing today.

Stainland.

I found a micro moth on the door last night. I've spent almost two hours going through all my moth bibles and on Flying Tonight Yorkshire Moths. I'm still no wiser. It was about 11mm tip to tail, and has faint dark marks at one thrid down.  Any comments welcome.

Worn Agonopterix sp. (Thanks Edward).

This morning, Anne found what looked like a Twenty Plume, it was the right shape, size and colour. Once it saw my camera, it flew off. It was anoying, as since my knee operations, I'm no longer able to kneel. The moth was very low down on tne door. It's a struggle for me to get down so I can lie on the floor, getting up is harder still. So, no idea what it was  Such is life.

Last nights Moths

Autumn Green Carpet x 1
Herald    x 1
Early Grey x 2
Hebrew Character x 3
Small Quaker x 5
Common Quaker x 2
Twenty plume Moth x 1
Double Striped Pug x 1
Brindled Pug x 3 (2 melanic)
Twin Spotted Quaker x 1

Aye Aye

This was sent to me for comment  - a 3 Eyed Peacock ( Not in Calderdale)

Butterflies

Been an excellent week for Small Tortoiseshells , Peacocks and Comma with reports from all over Calderdale in good numbers. Brimstones and Orange Tips have also been recorded along the valley bottoms and the first Small Whites on the 7th...Still no Speckled Woods or early Holly Blues. Green Hairstreaks should be out soon but may be hard to find this year with the restrictions.......
2 more Brimstones today from Hebden area...(AM and Nigel )..and a Green veined White on the 9th in Mythomroyd  thanks MBr....

Rishworth - An Engrailed is just 1/71 of the catch!

  It 's Good Friday - Quite literally...Last night the trap was unpredictably rammed with moths with 71 in total of 11 species... Any comments put below.... I got...


Agonopterix heracliana x1
Early Grey x2
Common Quaker x28
Brindled Pug x3 - Normal Form x2
                              f.hirschkei x1
Double Striped Pug x2
Engrailed x1
Satellite x1
Twin Spotted Quaker x4
Hebrew Character x16
Clouded Drab x1
Small Quaker x12

                                                    Engrailed

                                                        Agonopterix Heracliana

                                               Brindled Pugs f.hirschkei  and normal form.

Luddenden Moths - Plume

Any ideas on i.d.

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others Moths were
Brindled Pug 2
Oak Beauty 1  (twelfth this year)
Early Thorn  2
Hebrew Character  3
Common Quaker 2
Small Quaker 1
Clouded Drab 1

Lee Mount - 8th April

A few butterflies about - Peacocks, Small Tortoiseshells and and an unidentified 'white'.
Double-striped Pug x 1
Common Quaker x 1
Hebrew Character x 1
Not much doing with the moths but the moon and the stars were well worth observing. I don't know all that many constellations, just a few. but I eventually found LEO last night after much searching over recent months !!
Venus is brilliant at the moment too in the western sky.

Rishworth - Regulars...

Last night's moths were mainly everyday spring moths, sort of run-of-the-mill stuff. I got last night .....

Hebrew Character x4

Clouded Drab x2

Early Grey x1

Common Quaker x5

Brindled Pug x1

NOTE: if a moth is of a different form I would put the species name down with the form name. So I have only had one f.hirschskei Brindled Pug.

PUG help...good tips on malanics

Last Nights Moths......

Hebrew Character x 5
Small Quaker x 2
Diurnea fagella x 1 (dark form)
Brown House Moth x 1