Lee Mount - 12th November

First Winter Moth here. I kept disturbing a moth I couldn't get to grips with earlier this evening. Final check outside before lights out I found it on the side door.

Winter Moth

Stainland.

I had one very worn moth today. My best guess is a Sallow. Can anyone ID it, or is it too far gone?

In trying to add this image, instead of the image showing in the editor, a slection box I've not seen before popped up. It asked what size I wanted the picture to be and how I wanted it aligning. I chose, medium, and centered. It showed it as HTML code in the editor. Has anyone lese seen this? It seems a step back, one is not sure it's what one wanted until you preview or publish it. We were supposed to be making HTML invisible to users, unless they specifically wanted to use it. Google are always chaging things with no explination. SIGH

12 , November

5 Heralds today in Bare Head Tunnel , 2 Red green Carpet , Blairs Shoulfrt Knot and 2 Feathered Thorn last nite and a Red Admiral yesterday in the Garden (JC)

Not really Calderdale but...

 Some amazing records come up down south.

A Common Quaker in Stevenage, Hertfordshire 

A Radford Flame Shoulder in Bodenham, Herefordshire 

Free Books

Hi all I have 2 copies of Collins Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe and 2 copies of PBM Allans Laval Foodplants a Vade-Mecum for the Field Lepidopterist I am more than happy to pass to people in the group. Perhaps those on a limited income or younger members of the group should get priority for these :) Drop me PM via the group and your address and I will post them out free of charge. GG

Views around Halifax.

 Hello everybody.

I put a new post on my blog on Sunday. It's all photos of the lovely areas around Halifax. I wanted to try and lift people's mood for a while, by showing the beauty that's still there to be admired.

http://gordonartphotoand3dsci-fi.blogspot.co.uk/

Monday 9th November 2020

 A very mild night with thick fog.....

Light Brown Apple Moth x 3

Red Green Carpet x 1

Blairs Shoulder Knot x 1

Spruce Carpet x 2

Garden Rose Tortrix x 1

White Shouldered House Moth x 1

Tachystola acroxantha  x1

Angle Shades x 1

Lee Mount - 8th November

Tonight so far - pretty misty still and damp, but milder.

Satellite x 1

Mottled Umber x 3 (including 2 long stayers)

Brick x 2 (including 1 from 5th)

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.