Cold Edge

 20 Large Red Damselflies

Also: 1 Wall, 1 Peacock

Stainland.

Just a stubby, brown caterpillar today, an Angle Shades. The only Angle Shades cats I've seen this year, have been shorter and fatter than normal, perhaps it's the cold. If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will tell me. (I hope).

Two slightly different angles of the same creature.

Angle Shades

 

 Luddenden last night

Not a bad again last night, pick of the bunch was this Alder Moth

Others were

White-spotted Pug  2

Buff Ermine 2

Poplar Hawkmoth 2

Buff-tip 1

Heart & Dart 1

Flame Shoulder 1

Rustic-shoulder Knot 1

Green Silver-lines 1

Stainland.

 Over the last three days I have recorded:

1 x Bee moth - Male, (strongly coloured. The others I've seen so far this year, were all quite pale.)

1 x Twenty plume

3 x Light Brown Apple.

1 x White Ermine

1 x Dark Barred Twin-Spot (A first for me.)

1 X  Broom Moth TBC

Dark Barred Twin-Spot 

 Luddenden 28th May

The night of the Pale Tussock

Male

Female

Another decent night here with a whopping 10 Pale Tussock (9m 1f)

also

Brown Silver Line I

Scalloped Hazel  1

Common Swift 1

Flame Shoulder 1

Ingrailed Clay  1

Rustic-shoulder Knot 1

 Luddenden last night - 

The Moth I have been waiting for finally arrived last night, a Puss Moth. I had singles at Pellon in 2007 and 2009 but this is the first here

Others last night were 

Pale Prominent 1

Pale Tussock 3

Small Elephant Hawkmoth 1

Poplar Hawkmoth 2

Buff Ermine 1

Foxglove Pug 1

White-spotted Pug 1

As a matter of interest all the Moths this year have been caught with 22W circular Actinic bulbs, in fact I rarely use my MV125 trap and have not done for at least 2 years. 

Lee Mount - 28th May

 Just the one moth this morning.

Green Silver-lines

Lee Mount - 27th May

 Still not  a lot...

Pale Tussock x 1 - male found freshly dead in the trap

Elephant Hawkmoth x 1

Common Carpet x 1

Garden Carpet x 1

Bee Moth x 2

Tachystola acroxantha x 1

Unidentified Pug x 1

Common Carpet

Elephant Hawkmoth

Garden Carpet

 

Pale Tussock - dead 

Orange Footman

 Charlie Streets recorded 5 Orange Footman at Hardcastle Craggs this week , one that I've been hoping for the last few years. The first new species of the year ...Nice one Charlie

Last night  in Northowram , Miller , Pebble Prominent  , 2 Seraphim and a Spectacle were the best....Orange Tip , Brimstone(male) , Red Admiral , Holly Blue (at least 3) , Small White , Small Tortoiseshell in and around the garden this week

Blackstone Edge

 2 Green-veined Whites, 1 male Orange Tip

Lee Mount - 26th May

Still no overnight quantity.......other than a few 'hangers on' from yesterday

Pretty sure this first one will be Knot Grass(?)  though I have had to lighten it up a bit to improve the features (it was very dark).

Knot Grass 

Lesser Swallow Prominent

Small Elephant Hawkmoth (only 2nd record for this site)

Yesterday at Ogden and Ovenden Moor...

Masses of Common Heaths flying low over the heather moor but nothing else much other than Brown Silver-line x 2 found among the bracken.

Still a good few Orange-tip butterflies as well as Green-veined Whites and a Small White but unable to find any Green Hairstreaks despite the perfect conditions. They must be there !

 Luddenden 24th May

At last things are picking up with the warmer nights, I was just saying on Dave's post yesterday that I had never had a Fox Moth here and one turned up last night. In a repeat of the one I had at Pellon in 2010 she laid eggs. 

Female Fox Moth

Fox Moth Eggs

others last night were

Common Pug 4

White-spotted Pug 1

Narrow-winged Pug 2

White-pinion Spotted 2

Green Carpet 1

Brown Silver-line 2

Clouded Silver 1

Flame Carpet 1

Purple Bar 1

Common Swift 2

Small Elephant Hawkmoth 2

Pale Tussock 2

Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1

Flame Shoulder 1

Scalloped Hazel 1

White-pinion Spotted

 

Lighthazzles

 Mother Shipton

Lee Mount - 24th May

Never be too surprised at what might turn up in or around the trap . This one was a complete surprise this morning as I've never had a Fox Moth here before though have seen them on the upland areas of Calderdale as well as the caterpillars which often show on sunny days especially in autumn.

Fox Moth

Narrow-winged Pug - only the 6th record for here

Lee Mount - 22nd May

Struggling with identification with this one that appeared last night but it had gone by this morning. Maybe Rustic Shoulder-knot, that's the nearest I can get to it but little sign of a basal streak

Also singles of....

White-shouldered House Moth

Light-brown Apple-moth

Brindled Pug

Common Pug

Holly Blue still about today. I suspect it's the same one we've seen recently most days as it's doing it's rounds !

Stainland.

 Carrying on in what is fast becoming a tradition with me, I had one moth last night.

1 x Bee Moth - Male (Nice colour, the other I had was very faded.)

Bee Moth - Male

 Luddenden - May 1st - 21nd

It's been a relatively poor year for Moths so far. However here in Luddenden village it had been slow but steady particularly in May with many blank nights, this is what we have had so far

Pale Pinion - 12th May

Lime Hawkmoth - 8th May

Green Silver-lines - 8th May

Eyed Hawkmoth - 21st May

This is the full list for May

Brindled Pug  28

White-spotted  Pug  9

Oak Tree Pug 1

Common Pug 1

Double-striped Pug 3

Autumn Green Carpet 1

Water Carpet 1

Green Carpet 1

Flame Carpet 3

Broken-barred Carpet 1

Common Marbled Carpet 1

Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet 1

Purple Bar 2

White Ermine 2

Buff Ermine 1

Pale Prominent 1

Eyed Hawkmoth 1

Lime Hawkmoth 1

Poplar Hawkmoth 2

Pale Tussock 2

Buff-tip 3

Hebrew Character 3

Common Quaker 3

Early Grey 2

Shuttle-shaped Dart 1 

Scalloped Hazel 2

Rustic Shoulder-knot 1

Green Silver-lines 2

Butterfly site !

 https://yorkshirebutterflyatlas.org.uk/

I only just found this site the other day. Took a little while finding the way round it but it's well worth a look at.

Stainland.

 After David's post (a Poplar Hawk moth, hrrrumph), mine is rather pathetic.

1 x Twenty plume (sigh).

Lee Mount -21st May

Five moths this morning - just a slight improvement ! Light-brown Apple-moth and a Twenty Plume Moth as well as these below.

Poplar Hawkmoth

Shuttle-shaped Dart

V-Pug (looking a bit faded)