One for DJS

Lee Mount - 7th July

Been hard work lately with the weather as it has been though always better days around the corner - eventually !
Not  a lot over the last few days
Dark Arches, Brimstone Moth , Large Yellow Underwing (but only one or two), Heart and Dart still turning up and an occasional Flame and Marbled Minor agg's

This morning -
Bright-line Brown-eye x 1
Blastobasis lacticolella x 1
Green Oak Tortrix x 1
Phoenix x 1

Bright-line Brown-eye

Then a couple to ponder over.
Could do with some help on this one. Thought at first Willow Beauty but it doesn't seem to entirely fit the bill - though it could be  a worn individual (?) It was off before I could get a better shot and I'm not all that well clued up with this group.

Mottled Beauty

Eventually worked this one out below

                                                             Common Lutestring

Stainland.

Two moths today. A common Plume and an Angle Shades. The latter, rather prettily, settled down on the synthetic flower wreath, on our door.

Common Plume.

Angle Shades.

I was out this morning looking for Puss Moth larvae on a group of Aspens at Park Wood Crem, no luck there, but I did come across this weird little thing sat openly on one of the leaves - Stathmopoda pedella, quite scarce this far north. I think Paul had one at CB back in the day.

PS, if anyone knows of any Puss Moth cats anywhere please let me know, still not seen this species :-(

White letter Hair- streak

Northowram today was pretty busy with  many Small Tortoiseshell (50+) and Meadow Brown (50 +) ,also about Large Skipper x 3 , Red Admiral 4 , Large White x 2 ,Ringlet  x  5 and the first White letter hairstreak of the year...

RED-VEINED DARTER - SOIL HILL

Bit of a surprise this morning given the gloomy conditions but this cracking male Red-veined Darter was present at the bottom of the North Slope on Soil Hill. I can't imagine there have been many records of this scarce migrant species up here among the Pennines and it certainly gave me a start when it landed. As you can see, its a bit of a tatty individual, very docile and could not fly particularly well, so chances are it will hang around for those interested.

-Red-veined Darter

-Pin of location

Butterfly update..

Its been hard going the last few weeks but finally Mattthew Broadbent found a Purple Hairstreak in Mythomroyd yesterday the 5th July. July on the whole was poor with only 19 species recorded and low numbers with the exception of Meadow Brown , Small Tortoiseshell and Large Skipper. Ringlet oon the 20th and Small Skipper on the 24th June were the first dates noted. White letter Hairstreak and Gatekeeper should complete all the local species , then its Dark Green Fritillary , or Clouded Yellow we could yet get and influx of Painted Lady or Red Admiral.................

Now here's a proper moth

The first of my Luffia lapidellas  ( = Ferchaultella) emerged this morning. It's a female (as they all are) all 2.2mm of her. She had a bit of trouble locating her old case with her ovipositor to start with so I opened it up a bit under the microscope. She then started to lay eggs for the next five hours or so before dropping down to the ground to die in the not to distant future.  
As usual at the moment the photos are poor quality screen grabs.

Rishworth - Update

I have got the moth down to Pinion Streaked Snout. T

Pinion Streaked Snout, Rishworth, 2nd July

here were two of them in the trap this morning.

Rishworth - 2nd July - Overnight Moths

A rather good night considering the weather this past week. I have a moth pending. Expect an update.

Moth Trap 2nd July:
Barred Straw x1 (NFG)
Northern Spinach x1
Heart and Dart x9
Light Emerald x1
Common White Wave x1
Peppered Moth x1
Large Yellow Underwing x7
Flame x3
Ingrailed Clay x1
Coxcomb Prominent x1
Common Footman x1
Green Carpet x1

Common White Wave, Rishworth, 2nd July

Light Emerald, Rishworth, 2nd July

Barred Straw, Rishworth, 2nd July

A real cracker last night in Northowram////

Scorched Wing (new for Calderdale) x 1
Sycamore x 1  (first for me at Northowram)
Common Emerald x 1 (only my second here)
Sallow Kitten x 3
Beautiful Golden Y x 1
Silver Y x 3
Brimstone x 2
Swallow Tailed Moth x 1
Heart and Dart x 36
Clay x 1
Ribband Wave x 5
Ingrailed Clay x 2
Flame x 3
Smoky Wainscot x 1
Shoulder striped Wainscot x 1
Dusky Brocade x 1
Foxglove Pug x 1
Dark Arches x 5
Elephant Hawkmoth x 2
LYU x 2
Peppered Moth x 2
Bright line Brown eye x 2

Stainland.

3am this morning; A small magpie moth had settled on the fanlight. It was gone this morning, as is so often the case. I had to use my zoom lens. The photo was taken from about ten feet away, so there is quite a bit of digital noise. It's only the third one of this species I've seen, it was a nice surprise.

Small Magpie.

Lee Mount - 1st July

Not a lot this morning but a couple of puzzlers ! Not much time this morning - to check later.
Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix x 1
Light-brown Apple-moth x 2
Dark Arches x 1
Heart and Dart x 1
Silver Y x 1
Dusky Brocade x 1
Wormwood Pug x 1 - puzzled over this one for a while - a first here I think
Garden Carpet x 1

 Wormwood Pug (?)

Wonder if curled up abdomen and dark bar across thorax are good clues to this species ?

 Dusky Brocade - (not very familiar with this moth)

Garden Carpet  - looking a bit worn

Big Butterfly Count --soon.

Starts 17th July until Sunday 19th August. There's a free App to download too.
https://www.bigbutterflycount.org/

Stainland.

Two moths today.

1 x Riband Wave. (It flew before I got its photo).
1 x Brown House Moth.

Brown House Moth.

A couple from last night

                                                   Barred Red

                                                Peppered Moth

Lee Mount - 26th June

Just a selection from the trap with quite a number of the usual species
Brimstone Moth x 1
V-Pug x 1
Riband Wave x 3 (all non-banded)
Marbled Beauty x 3
Green Pug x 1 (surprisingly, the faded colour comes out better looking at the photos afterwards)
Buff-tip x 1
Poplar Grey x 1
Freyer's pug x 1
Flame x 3
Common Marbled Carpet x 1
Hawthorn Moth x 1
+++ a few other expected species

Marbled Orchard Tortrix x 1 (Hedya nubiferana though a possibility that it's ochroleucana)
Gypsonoma sociana x 1?

Buff-tip

 Gypsonoma sociana (slightly showing white face seems to be  a pointer)

 Hawthorn Moth

Marbled Orchard Tortrix (maybe)

Stainland.

It's a red letter day for me. There was a White Plume moth on the door at 2a.m. It's the first I've ever seen.

Today's finds.

1 x White plume.
1 x Blastobasis lacticolella, worn (TBC).
1 x Common Footman. (No photo).

White Plume moth.

Blastobasis lacticolella. TBC.

Redacre Allotments , Mythomroyd''''''''25 June 2020

                                                          Common Emerald

                                             White Plume Moth

Bloodvein

Many thanks to Nattalie Pownall and Matthew Broadbent  and the residents of the Redacre Allotments..A very busy night full list below........

Redacre Allotments

14	Hepialus humuli	Ghost Moth	1
994	Clepsis consimilana		2
1076	Celypha lacunana		2
1083	Hedya nubiferana	Marbled Orchard Tortrix	3
1175	Epiblema uddmanniana	Bramble Shoot Moth	1
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	5
1304	Agriphila straminella		5
1331	Acentria ephemerella	Water Veneer	1
1334	Scoparia ambigualis		1
1376	Eurrhypara hortulata	Small Magpie	15
1378	Phlyctaenia coronata		1
1513	Pterophorus pentadactyla	White Plume Moth	2
1524	Emmelina monodactyla		4
1550	Pieris rapae	Small White	1
1666	Geometra papilionaria	Large Emerald	1
1669	Hemithea aestivaria	Common Emerald	1
1682	Timandra comae	Blood-vein	1
1702	Idaea biselata	Small Fan-footed Wave	2
1708	Idaea dimidiata	Single-dotted Wave	2
1713	Idaea aversata	Riband Wave	6
1728	Xanthorhoe fluctuata	Garden Carpet	1
1738	Epirrhoe alternata	Common Carpet	1
1754	Eulithis prunata	Phoenix	2
1758	Eulithis pyraliata	Barred Straw	1
1776	Colostygia pectinataria	Green Carpet	1
1777	Hydriomena furcata	July Highflyer	2
1802	Perizoma affinitata	Rivulet	1
1817	Eupithecia pulchellata	Foxglove Pug	1
1832	Eupithecia assimilata	Currant Pug	1
1837	Eupithecia subfuscata	Grey Pug	1
1860	Pasiphila rectangulata	Green Pug	1
1931	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	1
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	2
1941	Alcis repandata	Mottled Beauty	1
1956	Cabera exanthemata	Common Wave	1
1961	Campaea margaritata	Light Emerald	2
1981	Laothoe populi	Poplar Hawk-moth	1
1997	Furcula furcula	Sallow Kitten	1
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	5
2098	Axylia putris	Flame	4
2102	Ochropleura plecta	Flame Shoulder	1
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	10
2118	Lycophotia porphyrea	True Lover's Knot	2
2120	Diarsia mendica	Ingrailed Clay	2
2122	Diarsia brunnea	Purple Clay	1
2160	Lacanobia oleracea	Bright-line Brown-eye	3
2198	Mythimna impura	Smoky Wainscot	1
2199	Mythimna pallens	Common Wainscot	1
2205	Mythimna comma	Shoulder-striped Wainscot	1
2280	Acronicta leporina	Miller	2
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	3
2326	Apamea crenata	Clouded-bordered Brindle	3
2330	Apamea remissa	Dusky Brocade	2
2337x	Oligia strigilis agg.	Marbled Minor agg.	8
2340	Oligia fasciuncula	Middle-barred Minor	4
2381	Hoplodrina alsines	Uncertain	1
2381	Hoplodrina alsines	Uncertain	1
2434	Diachrysia chrysitis	Burnished Brass	3
2441	Autographa gamma	Silver Y	1
2449	Abrostola triplasia	Dark Spectacle	1
2474	Rivula sericealis	Straw Dot	1
2477	Hypena proboscidalis	Snout	20
2489	Zanclognatha tarsipennalis	Fan-foot	2