Northowram 25th March ...

Grey Shoulder Knot x 1

Oak Nycteoline x 1

Oak Beauty x 1 

Diurnea Fagella x 1

Common Quaker x 12

Twin Spotted Quaker x 4

Small Quaker x 6

Early Grey x 2 

Hebrew Character x 13 

Brindled Pug x 2

Early Thorn x 1

Clouded Drab x 3 

Rishworth - Oak Beauty and Sword Grass

 A really good night on the 24th 

Moth trap 25th March

Oak Beauty x7

Chestnut x3

Common Quaker x11

Hebrew Character x4

Red Sword Grass x1

Clouded Drab x2

Small Quaker x4

Mottled Grey x1

Northowram 24th March 2022

Common Plume x 1

Beautiful Plume x 1

Diurnea Fagella x 1

Common Quaker x 11

Twin Spotted Quaker x 3

Small Quaker x 7

Early Grey x 2 

Hebrew Character x 7 

Double Striped Pug x 1

Early Thorn x 1

Clouded Drab x 2 

Copley garden

 Lots of butterflies around the garden and on the street.

Small tortoiseshell

Peacock

Comma

Orange tip(female)

Brackenbeds and Ogden

 24th March, Brackenbeds

Lots of small tortoiseshell and peacocks along with plenty of queen bumblebees.

25th March, Ogden

Eastern side of reservoir path, lots of tortoiseshell, peacock and 1x brimstone.

Northowram 23rd March

Oak Beauty x 3 

Double Striped Pug x 1

Beautiful Plume x 1 

Diunea Fagella x 1 

Twin spotted Quaker x 2

Common Quaker x 5

Small Quaker x 8

Hebrew Character x 9

Clouded Drab x 2 

Lee Mount - 24th March

So far today - with a couple more tonight !

Oak Beauty x 1

Satellite x 1 

Small Quaker x 1

Agonopterix sp x 1

Hebrew Character x 1

Common Quaker x 3

Stainland.

 As is quiet just now, I thought I'r mention my latest blog post. One of my older posts got nice comments from a few people here, it was all tree photos. This post is all natural history and landscapes which I've taken over the last year. Some you you will have seen the moth photos but not the rest.

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

Lee Mount - 22nd/23rd March

22nd March

Satellite x 1

Small Quaker x 2

Common Quaker x 2

March Moth x 1

Agonopterix heracliana x 1

Diurnia fagella x 1

23rd March

Brindled Pug x 1

Hebrew Character x 3

Small Quaker  x 1

Common Quaker x 1

Early Grey x 1

Clouded Drab x 1

Brindled Pug (double check this phone shot) gone a bit rusty since last year !!!

Mottled Grey

 Found about 35 in a couple of Grouse Butts ,up on the moor yesterday...

Rishworth - Out on the hill

 Just popped out with a net

Mottled Grey x3

March Moth x1

Rishworth - Back with a bang

 Yep, I haven't mothed a lot recently, but last night I gave it a go, with a really nice moth to top the lot for me.

Moth trap 18th March 2022

Hebrew Character x5

March Moth x1

Common Quaker x1

Brindled Ochre x1

Fox Moth

The sun at last ....Fox Moth cat at Walshaw Dean and a Small Tortoiseshell at Northowram
 

Giant's Tooth Ogden.

Things are looking up. two days ago I found an adult Green Shieldbug in the garden. It was starting to change from it's winter colour of brown, to the summer colour of green.

Today, at the Giant's Tooth, I found a large, hairy, brown caterpillar walking through the dried grass.  I haven't seen this one before. I wondered if it was a Fox Moth caterpillar? It was about two and a half inches long.

I also saw two Red Admirals on the wing at about the same time (2pm).

Fox Moth Cat. ID please?

Fox Moth Cat head TBC

Cold Edge

 Peacock 1

Copley valley

 1x comma on Milner Royd

1x peacock at end of lagoon, Copley Valley

March..2022

 March So far at home...

Common Quaker x 4

Small Quaker x 1 

March Moth x 1 

Hebrew Character x 1 

Chestnut x 1

Double Striped Pug x 1

Beautiful Plume x 2

Agonoptrix sp x 3

Satellite x 1

Hardcastle Crags - 4th February

We had a walk from Midgehole on to Gibson Mill today. On the way back we took a detour from the main track. A good move, we came across this nice moth, disturbed as we walked, and it landed in the leaves on the edge of our muddy detour.

Spring Usher

Lee Mount - 3rd February

One in the trap this morning but struggling with identification of this probable micro Pyralidae ?

Thought at first sight maybe Acrobasis sp. then due to the dark tuft behind the head perhaps Phycita roborella - but I'm not convinced either way and they seem out of season too. Any thoughts ?

Update.......... 

Tortricodes alternella

Pale Brindled Beauty x 1 tonight - yesterdays two are still there

Dotted Border x 1

Dotted Border

Lee Mount - 2nd February

Trap ahs been on most evenings with nothing doing at all. Not a single moth in January was not surprising with the wet, wind and low temperatures. Nice surprise to get two moths showing on 2nd and still there all day on 3rd.

Pale Brindled Beauty x 2 - pink abdomen showing quite well too.