Rishworth - 18th March - Overnight Moths - A spring celebration!

 The trap was absolutely brimming with moths last night, a spring moth festival.

Moth trap 18th March

Oak Beauty X3

Common Quaker x5

Small Quaker x5 (NFY)

Hebrew Character x4 (NFY)

Dotted Border x1 (NFG)

Twin Spot Quaker x1 (NFY)

Yellow Horned x1

Mottled Grey x3

March Moth x1

Chestnut x4

Satellite x1

KITCHEN WINDOW

Brindled Pug x1 (NFY)

Lower Burnt Moor 17/3/2021

After yesterdays first moths of the year in the trap I got optimistic and ran it again last night :)

Sadly only one moth in the trap this morning , but at least its a new species for the site :)

Hebrew Character Orthosia gothica

Update just found a March Moth on the patio doors near the trap so double my list for the night :)

Rishworth - 17th March - Overnight Moths - At Long Last...

 I finally got a Common Quaker!

Moth trap 17th March 

Oak Beauty x1 (yet another different one, they are all different)

Mottled Grey x1

Common Quaker x1 (NFY)

Lee Mount 16th and 17th March

These moths arrived overnight on 16th and all still there on the fence tonight, 17th. They are not for moving !

Oak Beauty x 1

Common Quaker x 1

Clouded Drab x 1

Hebrew Character x 2

March Moth x 4

Agonopterix heracliana/ciliella x 1

Unidentified micro x 1 - to look at later when I can check the photos.

First of the Year

Just two moths in the trap last night here at Lower Burnt Moor

1 Yellow Horned Achlya flavicornis,

1 Brindled Beauty Lycia hirtaria

This is the 7th time I have run the trap this year and the first moths in the trap last night at last.

Rishworth - Overnight Moths - 16th March - All Change

 Not bad last night, but the title "All Change" is because every one of the moths are different to yesterday's. Fantastic! 5 mayn't seem lot but it's good to get more than one at this time in the year!

MOTH TRAP 16th March

Oak Beauty X3

Chestnut x2

Stainland.

I saw my first bumble bee of the year this afternoon, it was like a flying mouse. They're always a welcome sight. It's been a beautiful day, just like Spring. I hope it's a harbinger of things to come.

15th March 2021

The first bright day for 2 weeks produced the first Small Tortoiseshell in the garden a welcome sight after all that gloom..... Ran the trap all night.. Oak Beauty x 1 Grey Shoulder knot x 1 Common Quaker x 1 Clouded Drab x 1 Early Grey x 1 Hebden Bridge....Oak Beauty x 6 . Yellow Horned x 1 and 1 Satellite ...thanks Winston P...

Grey Shoulder Knot (3rd local record)

Rishworth - Overnight Moths - 15th March - If only a dozen.

 Fantastic night here on the trap's first all nighter of the year.

MOTH TRAP 15th March

Oak Beauty x11

Mottled Grey x3

Chestnut x2

Yellow Horned x1

Satellite x1

Tortricodes Alternella x1

March Moth x1

Small magpie

 Small Magpie in the house today

Stainland.

1 x Dotted Border. 

 

This is a different one to the other day. The one I have today is very worn.

Rishworth 18th Feb

 A very belated post but I have got round to getting this on

Moth Trap 18th February:

March Moth x1 [NFY]

Pale B B x2

1 f monocharia

1 normal

Summer Supplies

 Got these today from Anglian lepidopterist supplies , should keep me busy in May , June and July.....Well worth a go if anyone has a bit of spare time.....

28th Feb , first butterfly's

 Small Tortoiseshells reported from various sites today.....................

Stainland.

 First moth of the season for me, I'm so pleased.  A Dotted Border.

 

Dotted Border.

 I've seen cocoons weathering out of peat, and collected one at Upper Gorple reservoir on Sunday. It was about 30cm below the present level of peat. I wondered if they would be of interest to any Lepidopterists. 

Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to transfer the images from my desktop to this blog, but if you're interested I've posted them on the Halifax Scientific Society Facebook page.

                                                                       Oak Beauty
 

another good February night in Luddenden 

Oak Beauty   1

Chestnut  1

Pale Brindled Beauty  4  (all pale)

March Moth 3

 

Lee Mount - 20th February

 Not much - just March Moth x 2 

Lee Mount - 18th February

Rain overnight but I left the synergetic light on with  a decent shelter over it ! Always live in hope.

Tortricodes alternella x 1

Dotted Border x 1 (a new one, the one with part of a wing missing had disappeared)

Pale Brindled Beauty x 4 (one new one)

Lee Mount - 16th February

I left the trap on all night even though there was a bit of rain forecast.

Both Pale Brindled Beauty still there on the fence from yesterday with a new one in the trap. Also by the trap a Dotted Border with part of a wing missing. That was it !

Dotted Border

Pale Brindled Beauty x 3 (including  f monacharia x 1)

Dotted Border x 1