Lee Mount - 7th November

Tonight - so far.......

Red-green Carpet x 2 

Red-green Carpet and a Harvestman

One new one this morning - still pretty misty here

Brick x 1

Brick

Mottled Umber x 2 - both still here from 5th Nov

Lee Mount

Last week or so, nothing doing. One moth last night and still here this morning.
Mottled Umber x 2

Mottled Umber x 2 still here along with a Feathered Thorn (below)

Also Light-brown Apple-moth disturbed in garden vegetation 

Turnip..?/

 Had this one last night odd looking Turnip ..?? Very White underwing with light trailing edge,

Stainland.

There was a nice surprise for me this morning. It may well prove to be my last Angle Shades moth of the season. It's showing slight signs of wear, but is still a very handsome moth.

Angle Shades.

Feathered Thorn

Blairs Shoulder Knot x 1

Red Green Carpet x 1

Garden Carpet x 1

Dark Sword Grass and LBAMoth.....last night...

Wasp Nest

Hi everyone first post since the exile returned from Wales :) A huge still active wasp nest found not far from the Alama Pub at Soyland

I will dig this out later in the year and see which of the various parasites of Wasps have taken residence. I had hoped to get out leaf mining and sugaring this week but the weather has put paid for that so far :(

last of the Butterflys....??

 

Think this may well be the last one of the year..23rd October 2020......and a Common Marbled Carpet on the window on the 25th ...

Lee Mount update

 Not  a lot since the last post on 18th Oct

3 different Yellow-line Quakers since then, November Moth agg peaked on 21st with 8.

Satellite x 2 on 20th, Tachystola acroxantha x 3, Silver Y x 1

Brick x 1 on 21st along with Angle Shades x 1, White-shouldered House-moth x 1, and Blastobasis lacticolella x 1, Mottled Umber x 1 and Feathered Thorn x 1.

Garden Carpet x 1 on 23rd

Red-green Carpet x 1 on 24th

Mottled Umber x 1 this morning (26th)

Rishworth - 19th October - Overnight Moths - NFGs!!!!!

 A great night, with 2 NFGs. Sorry this post is belated, TalkTalk decided to shut the whole Ryburn Ward's internet down yesterday.

Moth Trap 21st October:

Ypsolopha sequella x1 [NFG]

Autumn Green Carpet x1 [NFG]

Feathered Thorn x1 [NFY]

Angle Shades x2 [NFY]

November Moth Agg. x6

Yellow Line Quaker x4

Red Green Carpet x1

Chestnut x1

Sorry about the poor pictures, they were taken bleary-eyed at 5:30am on a Monday

Autumn Green Carpet, Rishworth, 19th October

Feathered Thorn, Rishworth, 19th October

Ypsolopha sequella, Rishworth, 19th October

Last few days

 A Red Admiral and Small White yesterday , in the trap Yellow Line Quaker , Blairs shoulder Knot x 2 ,LBAM and a Blastobasis ardustella....Also of note from Ian Hargreaves at Keighley Moor a December Moth last night...so not too far away......

Stainland. 20 Oct 2020 More Moths.

It was a much warmer evening last night as a result, at 11:00 p.m. last night, three more moths arrived. (The November Moth Agg. already reported, was discovered earlier today, at at 4:00 p.m.).

1 x Siver Y

1 x Light Brown Apple

1 x Common Marbled Gardem (Brown variety)

Stainland.

 I 've been tripped up twice with moths in the last couple of weeks, so I'm asking two quesions; 

1) Is the moth below, a Winter Moth? If so, it's another first for me.

2) How the devil do moths know what they look like, to enable the to chose the best camouflage surface near them? After all, they don't have little mirrors.  Er... they don't, do they?

 

Winter Moth. TBC.

Lee Mount - 18th October

From overnight and in and around the trap this morning

Garden Rose Tortrix x 1

Light-brown Apple-moth x 4

Common Marbled Carpet x 2 (one new one)

Feathered Thorn x 2 (one new one)

Acleris sparsana x 1

Angle Shades x 1

Satellite x 1

Spruce Carpet x 2

Red-green Carpet x 1

Mottled Umber x 1

Not sure of this (Common Marbled carpet ?) but thought it made a nice shot on the Rhodanthemum

Angle Shades

 

Feathered Thorn - quite different individuals above and below

Spruce Carpet

Stainland.

My thanks to Edward, for correcting my misidentified moth. See below.

I had a nice surprise this morning. A Red-Green Carpet, (worn) and two Angle Shades caterpillars, brown form. 

I've never seen two of the latter at the same time before. They gave me a little trouble at first. The markings on the ones below, are different to the other brown forms I've seen. Both are such a very dark brown, as to look almost a dull black. The photos showed otherwise. Caterpillar number 2, has quite a lot of green markings, as the images show.

Red-Green Carpet.

 

Autumn Shades Caterpillar 1.

 

Angle Shades Caterpillar 2 - with green marks.

Angle Shades head.

 

Angle Shades tail, showing claspers.
 

 

 

Rishworth - Overnight Moths - 17th October - A bit of autumn green

 Not bad last night here in Rishworth, good to get some NFYs and of couse, a beautiful Merveille du Jour.

Moth Trap 17th October:

Acleris sparsana x1 [NFY]

Red Line Quaker x1 [NFY]

Spruce Carpet x1 [NFY]

Merveille du Jour x1

November Moth Agg. x2

Common Marbled Carpet x1

Red Green Carpet x1

Yellow Line Quaker x3

Spruce Carpet, Rishworth, 17th October

Red Line Quaker, Rishworth, 17th October

Acleris sparsana, Rishworth, 17th October

Merveille du Jour, Rishworth, 17th October

Rishworth - 9:40pm

 Just popped out to the trap because I saw a triangle on the lamps rain cover and thought it was a Feathered Thorn but was delighted to find it was a Merveille du Jour, my second this year and third ever here in two years

Lee Mount - 17th October

Still here from yesterday - Common Marbled Carpet, Red-green Carpet, November Moth agg x 7 and Mottled Umber all hiding away on the fence near the trap.

New ones this evening (perhaps I missed them this morning)

Satellite x 1

Feathered Thorn x 1

Lee Mount - 16th October

 One new one for the autumn this morning

Mottled Umber

November Moth agg x 7

Tachystola acroxantha x 1

Red-green Carpet x1

Common Marbled Carpet  x 1 looking pretty worn by now

Silver Y

Also Small Tortoiseshell this morning

Lee Mount - 15th October

 Another very wet overnight but managed a single Satellite in the trap and a November Moth agg on the fence as well as the resident Silver Y still doing the rounds on the garden pot plants.

Northowram

 4 Heralds in Bare Head Tunnel , Silver Y and Red Admiral on Ivy in garden....and on next doors heather , Small Tortoiseshell , Red Admiral and a pristine Comma...!!!