Brook Grains Lane

I was down at Brook Grains Lane about 10 min ago and a Mother Shipton flew past ....

Rishworth - Lines Green and Silver!

A great night once more here in Rishworth with the feature of two more NFG's. Any comments Welcome...….


I got...…


Green Silver Lines x1 [NFG]
Clouded Silver x2 [NFG]
Flame Shoulder x2
Clouded Drab x1
Foxglove Pug x1
Double Striped Pug x1
White Ermine x1
Flame Carpet x1
Small Elephant Hawk Moth x1
Grey Birch x1
Scalloped Hazel x1
Brown Silver Lines x1

Northowram last night .s ....

17th
1 x Lime Hawkmoth
1 x Currant Pug
1 x Common Pug
1 x Garden Carpet
1 x Spruce  Carpet
1 x Shuttle Shaped Dart
1 x Small Phoenix
1 x Phoenix
2 x Heart and Dart
1 x Scalloped Hazel
1 x White Shouldered House Moth

Fox Moth x 2 ..yesterday evening

18th
1 x Elephant Hawkmoth
1 x Campion
1 x Spectacle
1 x Small Phoenix
1 x Heart and Dart
2 x Common Marbled Carpet
1 x Spruce Carpet
1 x Scalloped Hazel

Lee Mount

This morning I was expecting a few.....
Dead........one Light-brown Apple- moth, and that was it !!!

Rishworth - Glaucous Shears and Co. no.2

A fantastic night here in Rishworth with 17 moths of 15 species. 6 were NFG and 1 NFY. These include a Pale Prominent which I believe is very scarce locally only being found at Cromwell Bottom I see from the Moth Report (?). Any comments Welcome...….


Moth trapping starting 2120 ending 0510.


Lists start now...


Pale Prominent x1 [NFG]
Common Carpet x1 [NFG]
The Spectacle x1 [NFG]
Bright-Line Brown-Eye x1 [NFG]
Flame Shoulder x1 [NFG]
Scalloped Hazel x1 [NFG]
Flame Carpet x2
Dark-Barred Twin-Spot Carpet x1
Rustic Shoulder-Knot x2
White Ermine x1
Brown Silver Lines x1
Double Striped Pug x1
Glaucous Shears x1
Common Marbled Carpet x1 [NFY]
Pale Tussock x1

                                                  Scalloped Hazel

                                                    Glaucous Shears

                                              Pale Prominent

                                                      Glaucous Shears - Same moth as second picture

                                                     Spectacle

                                                       Spectacle

                                                 Bright Line Brown Eye

Pale Prominent, I believe from the moth report the only currently known  breeding populations are in Elland and Brighouse so is this a good record?

Butterfly

Red Admiral seen yesterday in Todmorden. I only see them in late summer this end of the valley so surprised to see it. Last week quite a few Brimstone.

Rishworth - Yellow!

Spent half an hour chasing a Brimstone around the wildflower meadow glade in the wood, it evaded the net completely by an inch. We have had Brimstones once every year or every two years so I am convinced there is a breeding population. The one seen today was a brilliant male searching for a mate, I hope I get a picture of one in the coming days. Any comments welcome,..

Rishworth - Night of the Prominents!

An excellent night for quality here in Rishworth with 14 moths of 12 species. A nice selection of Prominents and 4 NFG's. Any comments welcome.... Update: I just found an Iron Proinent next to where the trap is run.

Moth trapping stating at 21:25 16/05/2020 ending at 05:20 17/05/2020

I got...……

Coxcomb Prominent x1 [NFG]

Flame Carpet x1 [NFG]

Rustic Shoulder Knot x1 [NFG]

Small Phoenix x1 [NFG]

Lesser Swallow Prominent x2

Red Green Carpet x1

Brown Silver Lines x1

Early Tooth Striped x1

White Ermine x1
Buff Ermine x 1 (NFG)

Brindled Pug x1

Pebble Prominent x1
Iron Prominent x1

Buff Ermine

Milner Royd

I paid a visit yesterday morning, nothing on the wing, in fact the only leps seen were two Meadow Longhorns resting on Garlic Mustard and a pristine, female Dark Ash-bud Moth (Prays ruficeps) on knapweed. It's a new one for me and had me totally baffled until I got home and got the books out.

Lee Mount - 15th May..etc..

Nothing much doing here at all this last week - too cold !
This morning
Shuttle-shaped Dart x 1
V-Pug x 1
Hebrew Character x 1

Cold Edge today
Green Hairstreak x 3 but only singles found on heather - they were just sitting there in the cold first thing this morning
Orange-tip male x 1
Green-veined White x 3
Small Tortoiseshell x 1

Common Heath x 10 but they were hard to find as well. Maybe later in the day would have found better numbers !

Also one from this morning at Cold Edge (the head looks a bit odd with the dead heather branch behind) - sent it to CF suggesting Clepsis senecionana

Charlie supports this conclusion   "it's probably an under recorded moth in the county"

Rishworth - All the moths to the trap here up until today!

In this post is a list of all the moths that have come to my ALS Compact Skinner Trap with a Single 20w Actinic Bulb. Any Comments Welcome...…..


Starting Now...….




Chestnut 11
Pale Brindled Beauty 4
Tortricodes Alternella 4
Mottled Grey 11
Satellite 2
March Moth 3
Hebrew Character 105
Small Quaker 65
Common Quaker 198
Yellow Horned 1
Brindled Pug 37
Oak Beauty 6
Clouded Drab 30
Twin Spotted Quaker 19
Water Carpet 4
Double Striped Pug 4
Early Grey 7
Early Tooth Striped 10
Engrailed 3
Agonopterix Heracliana 2
Angle Shades 1
Early Thorn 3
Purple Thorn 1
Red Sword Grass 1
Iron Prominent 1
Red Green Carpet 2
Powdered Quaker 3
Grey Birch 4
Red Chestnut 2
Dyseriocrania Subpurpurella 1
Shuttle Shaped Dart 4
Lesser Swallow Prominent 3
Small Elephant Hawk Moth 2
Pale Tussock 4
Foxglove Pug 1
Common Pug 2
Pebble Hook-Tip 1
Brown Silver Lines 2
Swallow Prominent 1
Dark-Barred Twin-Spot Carpet 2
Pebble Prominent 2
Glaucous Shears 1
White Ermine 1
Puss Moth 1

Butterfly update

Another good week locally with good numbers of Green Hairstreak records from many upland sites and also 3/4 reports of Wall Brown . Orange Tips still about in good numbers, should get the first Common Blues next week as the temps look to hit the early 20's...

The Drinker Euthrix potatonia

This was sent to me by Natalie P and I am pretty sure it is The Drinker ...it was found in a garden in Hebden Bridge.This would prove there is small breeding population in the Hebden area .There are 2 other records 1 old record in Collinsons book with no details and 1 adult at Midgley in 2012 (Nick Carter)  which I thought at the time must be a migrant..!! ..The more people we have looking the more and more we are finding...more details to follow...

1954....

Many thanks to Rev David & Mrs Brenda Collinson , for sending these fantastic historical pictures . Also many thanks to Laurance at the Halifax Scientific Society...

Rishworth - Update

I sent all my records since 25th April to CF including the First for Calderdale and my Glaucous Shears and other finds and this batch have all been recorded now.... Just thought you all might want to know.....

Fox moth ..Hardcastle Crags

Nina Smith one of the Hardcastle Crags survey volunteers ,many thanks Steve B and Nina

BAGWORM

I went searching for bagworms this morning in N. Dean woods and by Jimminey I actually found one!!!!!!!!!

I thought it would be just another Dahlica lichenella but the case was much larger at 8.5mm and not plain like all the others but adorned with plant and insect fragments around the oral half. Even better was the fact that the case contained a dead and shrivelled female (for dissection) plus dozens of eggs which hatched about an hour later (for rearing). 

 I'm leaning towards Dahlica triquetrella at the moment but can't research much without a PC. 

I've sent the screen grabs off to Harry. 

Any thoughts most welcome. 

BEDSTRAW HAWKMOTH......!!!!!!

A Bedstraw Hawkmoth was seen in Hebden Bridge on the 10th May the first local record since 1971....it was found on the path near Nutclough Woods towards  Fearney Fields..many thanks to Alison Charles/ Matthew Broadbent and the finder Kate Henderson..for information..A beauty

Stainland.

I decided a while ago, not to announce when I'd put a new post on my blog on this site. It doesn't seem to appeal to may here. However, the post I've just mounted, may appeal to some people. Due to the gloom the situation we are in, I decided to post a few of my tree photos, to try and bring to light. So...

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Rishworth - I just realised.....

You are probably confused with the weird title but I'll explain.....


Explanation:


Whilst going through the moth trap this morning I was checking my ID of the Glaucous Shears when a FW34mm moth crawled out from under the sheet onto my knee, not being picture-worthy I put it on a bush and left and it quickly flew away. The reason I took no picture is that it had very few markings on its wings after probably going under the wet sheet under the trap after the unpredicted 5min heavy shower in which I just held an umbrella over the trap. The moth also had very furry legs I forgot to say. But just now I realised it was a Puss Moth. And I am an idiot for letting it slip through my net. Sigh...…..