16th April

3 Emperors kicking about near the Wind Farm , 20 + Philedonides lunana and 2 Mottled Grey....Speckled Wood , Orange Tip , Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell reported today..(thaks Nigel)

Lee Mount - 13th April to 15th April

Better than nothing at all......this cold weather is preventing much activity at night.

14th April

Hebrew Character x 1

Common Quaker x 1

Early Thorn x 1

Diurnia fagella x 1

Double-striped Pug x 1

14th April

Small Tortoiseshell x 2 on Soil Hill on Coltsfoot flowers

Later in the day on and around Castle Carr Road near Wainstalls

Small Tortoiseshell x 3

Peacock x 1

15th April

Agonopterix heracliana x 1 - the only moth at home

Shackleton Knoll / Walshaw and Crimsworth Dean today

Small Tortoiseshell x 5

Peacock x 1 

Philedonides lunana

Lots of these flying over heather on the walk up to Greater Manshead via Flints moor yesterday. They seemed to occur in great numbers all the way across Flints Moor and up Manshead but I only checked a few to confirm species.

Lee Mount - 8th April

Still cold overnight so not a lot doing

Clouded Drab x 1

Hebrew Character x 2

Common Quaker x 2

Double-striped Pug x 2

Agonopterix heracliana x 1

Lee Mount 3rd and 4th April

I recently got into the habit, if I could collect them safely, of moving moths well away from the house - otherwise the same ones seem to appear or stay around for several days.

3rd - Early Thorn x 1, Hebrew Character x 2, Common Quaker x 2, Diurnea fagella x 1, Brindled Pug x 1 and Early Grey x 1

4th - Twin-spotted Quaker x 1, Small Quaker x 1

 LUDDENDEN 310321

Brindled Pug  2

Oak Beauty  3

Clouded Drab  1

Hebrew Character  5

Twin-spot Quaker  1

Early Grey  1

Pine Beauty  2

Pine Beauty - grey variant

Small Quaker  11

Common Quaker  11 (there back)

Rishworth - Overnight Moths - 30th March - 50 moths and a couple of unknowns

 Everyone agree on Engrailed?

 Edit: I originally had this on for ID but after about 2hrs I have it as Oak Nycteoline, an excellent Garden first.

 A really good night last night, I have two unknowns. FYI I did trap on the night of the 29th but I lost my list :)

Moth Trap 30th March;

Chestnut x4

Common Quaker x13

Small Quaker x21

Water Carpet x1 [NFY]

Mottled Grey x6

Hebrew Character x10

Brindled Pug x7

Oak Beauty x4

Brown House Moth x1 [NFY]

Twin Spot Quaker x3

Clouded Drab x1

Red Green Carpet x1 [NFY]

Oak Nycteoline x1 [NFG]

30 march 2021

Oak nycteoline f notata

 Luddenden  290321

Oak Beauty  1

Common Quaker  8

Small Quaker  8

Twin-spot Quaker 3

Hebrew Character   6

Chestnut  1

Early Grey  2

Luddenden  303021

Double-striped Pug  1

Brindled Pug  3

Oak Beauty   2

Dotted Border  1

Pine Beauty  1

Small Quaker  7

Twin-spot Quaker  2

Early Grey 1

Chestnut  3

Hebrew Character  2

I don't know what happened to the Common Quakers last night

 

Lee Mount and Wheatley Valley 30th March

A good day yesterday with a new one for me us in the form of an Orange Underwing - just one flying around in an area of birch woodland in Shroggs Park overlooking Shroggs Road (thanks for the tip off AC and BL).

Also on the former landfill site and further up the Wheatley Valley on a lovely sunny afternoon a good show of two species of butterfly.

20+ Peacock

20+ Small Tortoiseshell  - several in cop

Also yesterday and last night - a few moths overnight and mostly in the trap this morning (31st)

Brindled Pug x 3

Hebrew Character x 3

Chestnut x 2

Common Quaker x 4

Agonopterix heracliana x 2

Early Grey x 3

Diurnia fagella x 1 (photo still to double check)

Pug sp still to check on x 1

30.March .2021

lots of reports today of , Brimstone , Small Tortoiseshell , Peacock , Comma and Orange Underwings...

Stainland.

I have a plume moth today, which I need some help with. The photo is not one of my better ones, sorry. I'm having a little trouble with my macro camera, so had to use one of my others with semi macro. It just isn't the same.

I think it's a Beautiful Plume - Amblyptilia acanthadactyla. It has banded legs and shading on the wing tips and on the leading edge of it's wings. It looks worn, so I'm not one hundred percent sure. 

 

 

Beautiful Plume TBC.

 

Anomalous

 I was out in the field opposite the house last night, here is what I got: all larvae unless specified

Anomalous x11.          Autumnal Rustic x1

Square Spot Rustic x3

Adult mottled Grey x2

New Yorkshire Butterfly Atlas online

Stainland,

I heard the first Skylarks today, on Ovenden Moor, they are always a welcome sound. I was above Ogden. on the Millennium Way. Also, several grouse were calling and one lonely Blackbird.

Cromwell Bottom and Orange Underwings

HAd a quick walk round today , 3 Orange Underwing flying high up in the birches on lagoon 1 , 10 Orange Underwing were recorded in Hebden last weekend and also a few at Colden on Monday and 15 + in Knott wOOD , Comma , Small Tortoiseshell and a Peacock today and a Brimstone recorded from Elland , so 4 species of Butterfly so far this year......

Last Nights Moths 22/3/2021

Just two moths of two species last night which at least was an improvemnt on Sunday night when I got zilch :)

Hebrew Character x1

Oak Beauty x 1

Lee Mount - 22 March

 This morning

 Early Grey x 1 was the only new one

Long stayers

Clouded Drab x 2

Oak Beauty x 1

March Moth x 4

Hebrew Character x 2

Small Quaker x 1

Twin-spotted Quaker x 1

Last Nights Moth 20/3/2021

After the glut of fives species the night before down to 1 Common Quaker last night. Given the gale blowing up here and the cold temps not surprising really

Last Nights Moths 19/3/2021

A positive glut of moths last night with 5 in the trap this morning :)

1 Common Quaker

1 Small Quaker new to garden

1 Chestnut new to garden

1 Pale Brindled Beauty new to garden

1 Hebrew Character

None I think are repeats as I take them a couple of hundred yards from the house and let them go in some thick scrub. The trap site is out of view from the release site blocked by the farmhouse and barn and my MV is run behind a large fence so it does not disturb my next door neighbour. I feed the tweeters in the garden so I like to shift the moths well out of the way of hungry tits and sparrows :)