Stainland.

Sunday night 24 March;

1 X Angle Shades Caterpillar.

Angle Shades  cat.

Lee Mount micro

This smart looking Caloptilia micro showed up this week. Couldn't decide between elongella or betulicola. Yorkshire Moths suggested gen.det. so checked with CF - correct options, but can't reliably tell them apart without dissection. The moth has gone now !

Lee Mount - 17th /18th March

Slight improvement....

Dotted Border x 1

Hebrew Character x 5

March Moth x 1

Common  Plume x 1

Brindled Pug x 1

Agonopterix heracliana x 2

Stainland.

 Happy St. Patricks Day!

I hope everyone is well and looking forward to a lovely, moth-filled Spring.

What a good day to celebrate my first moth sighting since last year. I have 1 Common plume on the door.

 Luddenden 12th - 16th March

It's been pretty good these last four nights despite the windy and often wet weather

These are the totals for the last four nights

March Moth  7   5 on the 12th

Pine Beauty 1   12th

Yellow Horned  1  12th

Early Grey 1   12th

Oak Beauty  8   5 on the 15th

Common Quaker  68   23 on the 14th

Small Quaker  3

Twin-spot Quaker  1   14th

Hebrew Character  27   7 on the 14th

Clouded Drab  5

Chestnut  8

Satellite - orange spotted 1

Yellow Horned

Oak Beauty

Pine Beauty

Ringby Lane and Lee Mount

First butterfly of the year for me with this Small Tortoiseshell this morning on the one small clump of Daffodils on Ringby top. Just lucky as no other flowers on the top other than a few scattered Coltsfoot flowers.

Five moths in /around the trap between 14th and 15th

One each - Clouded Drab, Common Plume, Hebrew Character and a Common Quaker along with an Agonopterix heracliana

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Common Plume

Hebrew Character

Lee Mount

Just four moths this last week. Common Quaker (4th and 7th), Oak Beauty (5th) and a March Moth (7th).

March Moth

Two shots of the same Oak Beauty

Whiteholme

Unidentified caterpillar

Lee Mount - 4th March

 Just the one moth - Common Quaker in the trap this morning.

Lee Mount - 29th February

Always put the light on if conditions allow. Even then I was surprised to find a March Moth on the fence by the light but that was it - light out.

Luddenden Moths February 2024 so far

 LUDDENDEN Feb 2024 so far

Off to a slow but steady start this year in Luddenden, the first Moth was 2 Pale Bridled Beauty on the 3rd. Since then we have had

Pale Bridled Beauty  20

Oak Beauty  2  14th & 15th - earliest record here

March Moth  6  1st on the 11th 

Chestnut 6

Common Quaker  5  1st on the 14th

Hebrew Character  2  1st on the 16th - earliest record here

Pale Brindled Beauty

Pale Brindled Beauty

March Moth

                                              Oak Beauty 

 

Lee Mount -17th and 19th Feb

Light on till the heavy drizzle, turned the light off at 11 pm - nothing doing. 

In the trap this morning (17th) a Satellite was a nice surprise.

(19th) - Dotted Border and (20th) 2 March Moths

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 Dotted Border

Lee Mount - 14th Feb

At last some mild weather but then the rain set in so it curtailed matters.

Pale Brindled Beauty x 3 (typical forms)

March Moth x 1

Agonopterix heracliana x 4

Tortricodes alternella x 1

Lee Mount - 28th Jan to10th Feb

 A nice surprise to start the moth year off after I put the trap on for an hour or so in the slightly milder conditions.

Pale Brindled Beauty

Another dark form as below on 2nd February and another typical one on 3rd and another new one on 6th with a 'monacharia' on 10th Feb.

Lee Mount - 17th Nov

 At last...... 2 moths...One each - Mottled Umber and a Winter Moth

Mottled Umber

Byron Edge

Red Admiral:  1 south

Early October

 Some great moths about in early October , Grey Shoulder Knot ,Streak ,  Merville du Jour , Barred Sallow , Green - brindled Cresent , Dark sword grass , Large Wainscot , Feathered Thorn ,Red and Yellow lined Quakers and a very late Golden rod Pug

Cold Edge

Red Admiral:  3 SW 

Byron Edge

Red Admiral: 2 south

Byron Edge

Red Admiral: 1 flying south