Lee Mount - 22nd May

Scalloped Hazel x 2
Common Swift x 1
Small Magpie x 1
Small Phoenix x 1
Silver-ground Carpet x 1
Foxglove Pug x 1
Twenty-plume Moth x 1
Ancylis badiana ( I think) x 1
plus another  micro not yet identified (?)

 Ancylis badiana ?

I don't often get near with micro's but think this might be nearer than I usually am with them !

 

 Common Swift

 

 2 of the same Scalloped Hazel

Small Magpie


I would appreciate any help with this one below of the same micro

 

20th May 2017 Stainland

I've not been doing much of late, as I'm still struggling to walk. It's a remarkably painful thing to do. Still at long last, I had some moths visit me.

First a twenty plume. The only reason I'm posting it is that it is so worn you can easily see the wing structure. I thought a spider had been at it but it flew off a little while later. I've had two more twenty plumes  since then.

Worn Twenty Plume

I'm not sure about the next two. I searched online and through Chris Manley's second edition, in the micro section twice for the first one. All I could guess at was a Common Slender Gracilaria syringella, I'm not certain however. I've added 2 shots to help it's ID.

Gracilaria syringella TBC

I think I'm out of touch, this should have been easy but... I think it could be a Common Carpet - Epirrhoe alternata TBC.  I looked at Garden Carpet too, nothing quite matched either try at naming.

Common Carpet - Epirrhoe alternata TBC

All I need now is some genuine IDs.

Lee Mount 18th May

One or two nice moths in the trap today

 Brown Silver-line (this is one I didn't expect as it's usually seen in bracken areas and none around here !)

 

 Common Pug (I think)

 

 Peppered Moth

 

 Small Phoenix (1)

 

 Small Phoenix (2) above and below

 

Also a Twenty-plume Moth and a Light-brown Apple Moth in the trap

Lee Mount 17th May

Just a single moth and nothing else but this was very nice !.

Silver-ground Carpet

Lee Mount

A selection of a few of the moths in the last week or so - with any corrections welcome !

 Tachystola acroxantha (1 on 12th and 13th May)

 

 Above and below I am pretty sure this is Lesser Swallow Prominent - (19mm wing length showing the shape of the white wedge) - it's the same moth showing better markings on the left rather than the right fore-wing. (12th and 13th May)

 Struggled with this one above on 13th May but am going for Pale Mottled Willow. It does show some small white dots around the kidney mark on the left fore-wing bit I can't pick them out on the right !

 Shuttle Shaped Dart

 

 Small Phoenix

 

V-pug

 

Other moths have included a few White-shouldered House-moths, Bee Moth, Twenty-plume Moths and a Brindled Pug.

Beechwood Park

A morning in Beechwood Park grasslands saw a newly emerged Speckled Wood, Small Tortoiseshell & lots of Orange Tips. There were also a number of small grass moths but I leave them until later to identify!

Buff Tip. (post from C.Streets)

Last September whilst working on re-instating a footbridge at Hardcastle Crags that got washed away in the Boxing day floods I found several Buff-tip larvae in the leaf litter. I took one home to rear through and it emerged a couple of weeks ago. The photos don't really do it justice as they are so beautifully camouflaged and hardly recognisable as moths.

At 29mm long I reckon it's a female.

Lee Mount

Still cold and not a lot doing the last week or so other than 2 Common Quakers last night (29th) along with what I think could be a Bee Moth - but I'm not sure ?  and a Small Phoenix on 28th April.

 Bee Moth ? corrected to Oak Nycteoline

Small Phoenix (I think) could this one be f insulata ?

Hardcastle Crags 21st April 2017

Further to Andys Counts Below


Weather :  Still occ Breeze Warm 11 -14 0 becoming cool
Trap : Robinson MV 120
Std 18-58 Canon Kit Lens
Three AC BL CD Attended  .

Other entomology  Nicrophorus humator , Cranefly Tipula

A slow steady start lend to a flurry between 10:30 and 11:30. In the main Common Qauker was by far most numerous with a steady input . The Early Tooth Stripe also appeared evident in number.
The Red Green Carpet likely over wintered and emerged from hibernation . The Grey Birch was a fairly fresh specimen and relatively  infrequent to this location



70.103 BF1750  Water Carpet Lampropteryx suffumata

70.274 BF1951  Grey Birch Aethalura punctulata

 

73.250 BF2189  Twin-spotted Quaker Anorthoa munda

73.069 BF 2243 Early Grey Xylocampa areola



70.095  BF 1760 Red-green Carpet Chloroclysta siterata 

71.018 BF2006 Lesser Swallow Prominent Pheosia gnoma

see tthis link for Sallow versus Lessser Swallow


70.237 BF1917 Early Thorn Selenia dentaria






TBC



See this link for Mottled Grey versus Early Tooth Stripe


70.202 BF 1881 Early Tooth-striped Trichopteryx carpinata

See this Link Mottled Grey versus Early Tooth Stripe 



ETS Caterpillar 

Last Night in the Craggs

Common Quaker  x   55
Small Quaker      x  1
Hebrew Character   x 3
Clouded Drab x 2
Twin Spotted Quaker x 1
Early Thorn x 2
Lesser Swallow Prominent x 1
Early Tooth Striped  x 12
Grey Birch x 1
Early Grey x 2
Chestnut x 2
Brindled  Pug x 10
Common Pug x 1
Double Striped Pug x 1
Water Carpet x 1
Red Green Carpet x 1
Mottled Grey x 1
Eriocrania subpurpurella x 10

fRIDAY 21ST Mothing at Craggs

Running trap in the craggs tomorrow night 21st at 9.00 onwards...

Lee Mount

Fairly quiet this last week or so with just a smattering of Common Quakers and  Hebrew Characters.
Last night fared better
Clouded Drab x 1
Brindled Pug x 2
Hebrew Character x 2
Common Quaker x 1
Early Grey x 1
and the surprise this morning was a V-Pug on the fence next to the light

V-Pug

Also 2 of these below turned up - think,  by the purple spots, they must be Eriocrania subpurpurella. ?

Still hoping for the weather to warm up a bit !

Lee Mount

First Red Admiral today was very nice.
Not much doing on the moth front, just a few Common Quaker, and an Early Grey at the end of last week along with a Hebrew Character.

And on the following day 19th my first Speckled Wood in the garden.

ABH 40.008 BF 892 Garden Cosmet Mompha subbistrigella

ABH  40.008 BF 892   Garden Cosmet  Mompha subbistrigella

Taken with the bog standard kit lens in poor light so image quality not good. The length was about 7 - 9 mm so very small All of the features of Mompha sp , the best fit likely being subbistrigella 

see LINK scroll down half way & LINK