Rishworth - 20th June - Overnight Moths

A fantastic night last night here, there was quite a lot of rain last night but moths or m actinic trap didn't seem to mind.

Moth Trap 20th June:
Willow Beauty x1 [NFG]
Green Pug x1 [NFG]
Barred Fruit Tree Tortrix x1 [NFG]
Northern Spinach x1 [NFG]
Eudonia lacustrata x1 [NFG]
Dark Arches x2 [NFY]
Flame Shoulder x1
Marbled White Spot x4
Elephant Hawk Moth x5
Small Elephant Hawk Moth x2
Ingrailed Clay x3
Heart and dart x18
Flame x9
Rufous Minor x1 - Yes I am sure, if you look on the image at the left wing you will see iron colur.
Marbled Minor Agg. x7
Shoulder Striped Wainscot x3
Cinnabar x1
Brimstone Moth x1
Buff Ermine x1
White Ermine x1
Clouded Border x1
Bee Moth x1
Broom Moth x1

Green Pug, Rishworth, 20th June

Willow Beauty with Northern Spinach, Rishworth, 20th June

Rufous Minor, Rishworth, 20th June

                                                             

Northern Spinach with Willow Beauty, Rishworth, 20th June

Copley garden - Friday 19th/Saturday 20th June

A much more successful trapping session, with a few at the bottom I would appreciate help with.

1817 Foxglove pug x1
1931 Peppered Moth x1
1991 Elephant hawkmoth x2
2050 Common footman x1
2089 Heart & dart x14
2107 Large Yellow Underwing x 2
2160 Bright-line brown-eye x1
2330 Dusky brocade x4
2442 Beautiful Golden Y x1

ID help needed.....

Moth 1

Moth 2 - Pale Oak Beauty??

Moth 3

Moth 4

Mixenden

Large Skipper 2

Rishworth - 2020 Species List for the garden

Hello All,
Since I haven't trapped for 5 days (am going to tonight) I just thought I would write up an updated species list. Nothing to extravagant in it, mind. These are all from in the garden. The Butterflies list isn't in order whereas the moths are.

Butterflies
1  Red Admiral
2  Holly Blue
3  Small Tortoiseshell
4  Comma
5  Speckled Wood
6  Brimstone
7  Peacock
8  Large White
9  Orange Tip
10  Small White
11  Green Veined White
12  Large Skipper

Moths
1  Pale Brindled Beauty
2  Chestnut
3  Tortricodes Alternella
4  March Moth
5  Mottled Grey (Normal and f.nubilata)
6  Satellite
7  Hebrew Character
8  Small Quaker
9  Common Quaker
10  Yellow Horned
11  Oak Beauty
12  Brindled Pug
13  Clouded Drab
14  Twin-Spotted Quaker
15  Early Tooth Striped (v.common here - not a common moth in the county or Calderdale I believe)
16  Early Grey
17  Water Carpet
18  Double Striped Pug
19  Agonopterix Heracliana
20  Engrailed
21  Early Thorn
22  Angle Shades
23  Iron Prominent
24  Purple Thorn
25  Red Sword Grass
26  Red Green Carpet
27  Grey Birch
28  Cameraria Ohridella
29  Powdered Quaker
30  Lesser Swallow Prominent
31  Red Chestnut
32  Dyseriocrania Subpurpurella
33  Shuttle Shaped Dart
34  Small Elephant Hawk Moth (v common here too)
35  Pale Tussock
36  Foxglove Pug
37  Common Pug
38  Pebble Hook-Tip
39  Brown Silver Lines
40  Swallow Prominent
41  White Ermine
42  Glaucous Shears
43  Puss Moth
44  Pebble Prominent (very very common)
45  Dark-Barred Twin-Spot Carpet
46  Coxcomb Prominent
47  Rustic Shoulder-Knot
48  Small Phoenix
49  Flame Carpet
50  Buff ermine
51  Pale Prominent
52  Common Carpet
53  Spectacle
54  Bright-Line Brown-Eye
55  Flame Shoulder
56  Common Marbled Carpet
57  Scalloped Hazel
58  Green Silver Lines
59  Clouded Silver
60  Clouded Border
61  Elasticha Atricomella
62  Notocelia Trimaculana
63  Poplar Hawk Moth
64  Buff Tip
65  Fox Moth
66  Bee Moth
67  Elephant Hawk Moth
68  Crambus Lathoniellus
69  Clouded Bordered Brindle
70  Common White Wave
71  Heart and Dart
72  Silver Ground Carpet
73  Ingrailed Clay
74  Dark Spectacle
75  Knot Grass
76  Peppered Moth
77  Broom Moth
78  Common Swift
79  Miller
80  Marbled White Spot (very very common, almost nightly at the moment)
81  Marbled Minor Agg.
82  Cinnabar
83  White Spotted Pug
84  Eyed Hawk Moth
85  Flame
86  Large Yellow Underwing
87  Pale Shouldered Brocade
88  Middle Barred Minor
89  Dark Brocade
90  Blood-Vein
91  Brimstone Moth
92  Green Carpet
93  Bordered White
94  Elasticha Argentella
95  Celypha Lacunana
96  Agapeta Hamana

Very well done if you made it this far, that was at longer than expected...

Luddenden 190620

A much better week in Luddenden with last night being the highlight

190620

Varied Coronet 1  3rd record here with a different one on the 16th
Common Footman  1
Foxglove Pug  1
Flame Shoulder  1
Poplar Hawkmoth  2
Elephant Hawkmoth  1
Large Yellowunderwing  1
Heart and Dart  5
Clouded-bordered Brindle  2
Dingy Footman  1
Common White Wave  1
Map Winged Swift  1
Flame  1
Poplar Grey 1  2nd record here, last in 2010

Varied Coronet

Poplar Grey

Dingy Footman

Lee Mount - 20th June

A poor night . I certainly expected more but maybe tonight will be better !
Dark Arches x 1 - first of the year
Small Magpie x 1
Heart and Dart x 3

Lee Mount - 18th June

What a wet miserable day !
Never mind, not  a lot this morning other than the usual species plus a Clouded Border and Common Footman.

Common Footman

More bagworms........

I had a wander up Maple Dean clough yesterday on the western edge of N. Dean wood. One of the highlights was a small micro resting on a birch trunk. To the naked eye it looked like a Skin Moth type but a closer look back home revealed it to be a male Diplodoma laichartingella - the first adult bagworm I've found so far and the fourth species found locally.
There are obviously several species in Calderdale some of which are fairly widespread but they do take some finding.

Last night - Copley

Put the trap out last night and was happy to see a few different moths following a few times with nothing!

2474 Straw Dot x 1

2439 Gold Spot x 1
2089 Heart & Dart x 5
2098 Flame
2441 Silver Y x 2
1428 Bee Moth x1

Also two below I am not sure on so help with ID  would be appreciated - thinking top - Purple Clay and bottom Epiblema trimaculana - but open to correction.

Last Night...

                                                    Small Elephant Hawkmoth

                                                     Broken Barred Carpet

                                                   Knot Grass and Poplar Grey (for comparison)

                                                           Poplar Hawkmoth

                                                    Large Elephant Hawkmoth

Soil Hill

Another new Dragonfly for me on Soil Hill today with this Broad-bodied Chaser. Also still good numbers of Azure and Large Red Damselflies.

-Broad-bodied Chaser

Update....

Nothing too fantastic in the trap at the moment but 6 Elephant Hawkmoths was interesting (5 pictured)...Plenty of Peppered Moths , Bright line Brown eyes , CBB , Poplar Hawks Freyer's Pug Spectacle , Flame , Heart and Dart (a very good year) Beautiful Golden Y .. ..Plenty Silver Y and a few Diamond backed Moths...

Ghost Moth Lek last night saw up to 30 males  displaying

A Wood Tiger reported today at Cragg Vale (thanks Winston)

Has any one seen a COMMA or Holly Blue  in June...
So far there were more butterflies in MAy than June.!!!!
Ringlets , Gatekeeper , Small Skippers , Purple and White letter Hairstreaks  should all be out soon....

Red Admirals have been seen in good numbers this week.........

Lee Mount - 16th June

18 species plus a few difficult micros so not too bad a haul for here.
Pale Mottled Willow x 1 - this was the best moth of the night
Elephant Hawkmoth x 1
Garden Carpet x 2
Ruby Tiger x 1
Heart and Dart x 3
Chrysoteuchia culmella x 3
Light-brown Apple Moth x 1
Tachystola acroxantha x 4
Marbled Minor agg x 3
Brown Housemoth x 1
Blastobasis lacticolella x 1
Scoparia ambigualis (I think) x 1
Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix x 2
Middle-barred Minor x 1
Bee Moth x 1
Flame Shoulder x 1
Dark- Fruit-tree Tortrix x 1
Argyresthia trifasciata (TBC) looks to me spot on with a white head etc?

 Argyresthia trifasciata (TBC)

 Blasobasis lacticollella

Pale Mottled Willow

Soil Hill

Few insect bits from Soil Hill in the last couple of days. Two Four-spot Chasers today, one fresh emergance and this stunning praenublia individual. Likely had one two days ago as well but was fighty and couldn't confirm it to be this species. This is my 7th Odonata species on Soil Hill. Lots of ovipositing Azure and Large Red Damselflies as well over the weekend.

Common Blue, Small Heath, Large Skipper, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Painted Lady and Small Copper all been around in the last week or so. Also Small Magpie Moth

-Four-spot Chaser (f. praenubila)

-Azure Damselflies

Jerusalem Farm - Sat 13th

Took a walk up Luddenden Valley to Jerusalem Farm on Saturday. Not so many butterflies

Speckled Wood x 2
Peacock x 1(very worn and ragged)
Large White x 3
Small Skipper x 1

Checked out the pond at the end of the campsite - it was alive with life! lots of tadpoles, beetles etc. but the thing that caught my eye was the number of coupled common red damselfly laying eggs. well over 50 pairs and in one small area I counted 10 pairs in a square metre, worth a look on a sunny day if you are in the area.

Rishworth - 15th June - Queries

These are the queries mentioned on my last post. Help is sought with all moths put on. Any help highly appreciated.

                                                   ID Edit: I think this is Agapata Hamana after a bit of trawling

ID

There has been a lot of these in the past week are they beetles or backswimmers? They are definitely aquatic.

                                                This one I am leaning to go for Rufous Minor but...

                                                This one still not sure but Elasticha Argentella?

Rishworth - 15th June - Overnight Moths - A casualty

A good night last night and Marbled White Spots feel common at the moment..

Moth Trap 15th June:
Bordered White x1 [NFG]
Brimstone Moth x1 [NFG]
Blood Vein x2 {NFY]
Queries x3 see a separate post
Chrystoeuchia culmenella x3 (or however it is spelt)
Marbled White Spot x2
Pale Shouldeered Brocade x1
Heart and Dart x13
Elephant Hawk x1
Green Carpet x1 [NFG]
Peppered Moth x4
Lesser Swallow Prominent x3
Silver Ground Carpet x2
Buff tip x1

Now for the bit relating to 'A casualty'. On the outer eggboxes of the trap I turned one over as I started to empty the trap and a very large beige-red spider was sat with the wings of a Bordered White. The spider was then flopped over the fence into the meadow that seperates the house from the wood.

                                                   Bordered White above and below

                                                     Pale Shouldered Brocade below.

Rishworth - 13th and 14th June - Overnight Moths

Some quite good nights in the trap past two nights...

Moth trap 13th June:
Pale Shouldered Brocade x2 [NFG]
Shoulder Striped Wainscot x1 [NFG]
Heart and Dart x9
Ingrailed Moth x3
Poplar Hawk x1
Elephant Hawk x1
Clouded Bordered brindle x2
Rustic Shoulder Knot x3

Moth Trap 14th June:
Middle Barred Minor x1 [NFG]
Dark Brocade x1 [NFG]
Large Yellow Underwing x4
Peppered Moth x6
Ingrailed Clay x7
Marbled White Spot x1
Rustic Shoulder Knot x4
Clouded Bordered Brindle x4
Heart and Dart x12
Marbled Minor Agg. x5
Common Pug x1
Pale Shouldered Brocade x2
Flame Shoulder x1
Common White Wave x1
Lesser Swallow Prominent x2
Iron Prominent x1

                                                     Dark Brocade - Above and Below

Srainland.

A very small find today in Robber Doddge. Plus one moth from our door.

2 x Small Skippers.
1 x Small Tortoishell.
1 x Garden Carpet moth.

Both skippers were nectaring on brambles, you can see their probiscus's. I've always struggled to get good, crisp shots of Skippers. These could have been better, but they were some12 feet away. My zoom lens was at full extention. Most high power zoom lenses suffer at full extention, focus and contrast tend to be degraded.  I shouldn't complain really,  they are better than I've done before.

Small Skipper.

Small Skipper.

Lee Mount - 15th June

Muggy overnight so I certainly expected something this morning
Only 18 moths but I was not disappointed.
Small Elephant Hawkmoth x 1 This was a first for here though I did see them on Norland Moor on 21st June 2016
Green Pug x 1
Tachystola acroxantha x 4
Ingrailed Clay x 2
Heart and Dart x 4
Light-brown Applemoth x 1
Clouded Silver x 1
Chrysoteuchia culmella x 1
Small Magpie x 1
Common Pug x 1
Unidentified Pug x 1 that got away !

 Green Pug - had me baffled for a while till I zoomed the photo to see the fading green colour

Small Elephant Hawkmoth