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It might be of interest to some.

New Macro Moth Species for Calderdale in the last 3 years

Chocolate Tip ,

Scorched Wing 

Black Arches

Cloaked Pug

Silver Hook

Lesser Common Rustic (gen det)

December Moth

Box Tree Moth

Vines Rustic

Scarce Footman

Heath Rivulet

Obscure Wainscot

Scarlet Tiger

Small Mottled Willow (i thought this was a new record but have found 2 old records for this migrant)

Lee Mount

 Nothing doing yet here at all this New Year - we live in hope !

Three micros from last year (with help from CS and CF)

Bucculatrix ulmella (14th Aug 22)

Caloptilia rufipennella (20th Aug 22)

Ypsolopha sylvella (21st Sept 22)

2022 AND INTO 2023

  2022 was again an excellent year with record temps and again more new species for Calderdale. Obscure Wainscot , Scarce Footman , Scarlet Tiger ( no one had that on there list of maybe's) , Heath Rivulet  and Vines Rustic.   Small Mottled Willow , Red Necked Footman , Box Moth and many more. HNY and here's to 2023....who knows what will turn up next..??????

Lee Mount !

Nothing doing at all here in December other than indoors a single Twenty-plume Moth on 4th. With the weather as it is, it's not looking hopeful for any moths just yet though I keep hoping for December Moth (don't think they like our area !)

Lee Mount - 27th and 28th October

Very mild last night but plenty of rain. This was a new one for here , well first time I've recognized this micro though it has quite a distinct shape.

Exapate congelatella (10mm)

The weather still produced just a few moths for this morning.

Tachystola acroxantha x 1

November Moth agg x 2

Feathered Thorn x 1

Brick x 1

Sallow sp ? x 1 (still to confirm)

2 shots of suspected Sallow sp. - looks quite faded at 15mm -any thoughts ?

Confirmed as Scarce Bordered Straw (thanks to AC CF and DIC)

Also later in the day singles of...

Mottled Umber and a Red-green Carpet

Lee Mount

 Last few days - not a lot..........though November Moth agg up to 3 most nights

Silver Y x 1 (18th) and a Feathered Thorn

Lesser Yellow Underwing (22nd) looked freshly emerged ! 

24th Oct

Shuttle-shaped Dart x 1 - seemed quite late for this sp.

Tachystola acroxantha x 2

Light-brown Apple-moth x 2

26th October

Mottled Umber x 1

Common Marbled Carpet x 1

Lee Mount - 18th October

Just a single Feathered Thorn this morning and a Red-green Carpet still from yesterday.

A Streak just turned up fluttering around the light trap, a first for here, Hopefully a photo if it complies !

Streak - best angle I could get so far

Speckled Wood in Luddenden this afternoon.

Shibden Valley

Red Admiral 1 

Lee Mount - 17th October

Just a few moths on and around the trap this morning

Red-green Carpet x 2

Light-brown Apple-moth x 2

Ypsolopha sequella x 1 (stunning little micros)

Large Yellow Underwing x 1

November Moth agg x 1

Yellow-line Quaker x 1

October Butterflies

Small White.... 13th Holly Blue...13th Comma ...15th Red Admiral .....14th Small Tortoiseshell ....13th Peacock........13th Speckled Wood ...13th Wall Brown .......11th

Red Admirals

Three Red Admirals seen yesterday in different locations and one at Mixenden reservoir on 10th. Will be on the lookout for more if we get some sunny days !

Have been trying for Haworth's Minors but no luck as yet - hardly any ragwort in flower on the uplands !

Lee Mount - 6th October

I went out into the garden just after dark - 3 moths buzzing around the Erysimum and Verbena bonariensis looking like Hummingbirds Hawkmoths - too small. 

Indoors for the camera and managed to get a single shot of one on the Verbena, wings always in motion. I came to the conclusion they were probably Silver Y's but they didn't seem to like the torch, or my presence ! I couldn't re-find them though I tried shortly afterwards but the wind had also increased so might try again tomorrow night - unless they end up in the trap in the morning !

Still a Red Admiral around the garden late morning.

Lee Mount - 3rd and 4th October

 A little milder last night(3rd) produced just a few !

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November Moth agg x 1

Lunar Underwing x 1

Common Marbled Carpet x 3

Red-green Carpet x 1

Light-brown Apple-moth x 4

Tachystola acroxantha x 2

Red Admiral and 2 Speckled Woods late morning of 3rd.

4th Oct

Acleris sparsana x 2

November Moth agg x 4

Snout x 1 (was my latest ever though it was fading)

Black Rustic x 1

Lesser Yellow Underwing x 1

Large Yellow Underwing x 3

Pug sp unidentified

Beacon Hill Road

Red Admiral 1

 

Lee Mount - 1st October

 One Red Admiral still on the Buddleia across mid-day.

29th September

Where has this month gone !!

Lee Mount - One each Red Admiral and a Comma on Erysimum still - but they stayed only briefly.

Suspicion, in sunny spells,  of a Vapourer moth this morning, at home, and another disturbed in an herbaceous border near Ogden this afternoon. Both really brown and both flew rapidly straight up and into the canopy though I can't be 100% sure that was what they were. Both fleeting glimpses and I couldn't re-locate either of them - so they hace to remain as 'might have been's.

A couple of Speckled Woods at Ogden this afternoon - looking a bit faded now.

Black Rustic in the  trap yesterday morning and a single large Yellow Underwing.

Cold Edge

 Speckled Wood 1

Fox Moth ....

 I counted 107 Fox Moth cats yesterday in one area of heather moorland up near top Walshaw  and 24 in another area near Widdop rocks........\They seem to like the top stems of heather and stand out from a distance when you get your eye in................

Lee Mount - 24th September

 I didn't expect one of these just yet - then had to check as it is quite unusually marked.

Feathered Thorn

Lunar Underwing x 1

Large Yellow Underwing x 3

Painted Lady from yesterday was still around the garden this morning.