Shibden Valley

Holly Blue 1 

Shibden Valley

Orange Tip: 2 males 

Whiteholme

1 of 2 Peacocks

New Bank

Orange Tip male

BAITINGS:  Peacock 1

Lee Mount - 9th April

 A couple of special moths this morning after a warmer than average day yesterday and overnight. New ones for this site and the best night yet this year.

Brindled Beauty

Lunar Marbled Brown

Also

1 Hebrew Character

9 Common Quaker

3 Small Quaker

2 Clouded Drab

1 Oak Nycteoline

1 Acleris literana (only 2nd record for here)

1 Brindled Pug 

1 Early Thorn 

Acleris literana

Early Thorn

Weather turned dull and cold today and tonight so don't expect anything much in the morning !

Lee Mount - slow going - January and February !

Cool, cold or wet nights continue and few returns from the moth trap which has been on at times throughout given reasonable conditions. 

Nothing in January

1st Feb  - 3 x Pale Brindled Beauty included one melanistic. 

9th Feb - 4 x Pale Brindled Beauty

22nd Feb - 1 x March Moth

25th February was as good as it got so far with 2 x March Moths, 1 x Oak Beauty and 2 xTortricodes alternella

Oak Beauty

Hardcastle Crags 17th jan 2026

Chestnut

Pale Brindled Beauty

Spring Usher

Spring Usher (dark form)

The first outing of the year and the first time trapping in January at the Crags.===

Chestnut x 2 ( first in)

Pale Brindled Beauty x 12 

Spring Usher x 6 (3 different forms)
 

Lee Mount - 29th Nov

Had a surprise early evening with what I suspect is the flightless female Winter Moth.?

I've tried looking for these in winter evenings on tree trunks and failed to find any even though males were present. 

This one was on the window frame where there were 2 males earlier this week.

Winter Moth - female

Lee Mount - 28th November

 A very nice surprise in the trap this morning even though I shut the trap down last night owing to the strength of the wind. Just the one moth in the trap, a new one for here..

December Moth

Lee Mount - October up to 16th.

Hardly ever get a lot of moths here but always something of interest...

6th - Red-green Carpet x 1, November Moth agg x 2, Large Yellow Underwing x 1, Tachystola acroxantha x 1, Light-brown Apple-moth x 1

8th - Feathered Thorn x 1, Blastobasis lacticolella x 1,

14th - Green brindled Crescent x 1, November Moth agg x 6, Silver Y x 1, Common Marbled Carpet x 1

15th - Streak x 1, Merveille-du Jour x 1

16th - Dark Sword-grass x 1

Green-brindled Crescent

Merveille-du Jour

Streak

October 13th 2025 an exceptional night

 Merville du Jour x 2

Vines rustic x 1

Brown Spot Pinion x 2

Rosy Rustic x 1

Lunar underwing x 2

Garden Rose tort x 1

Pink - barred Sallow x 1

Barred Sallow x 2

Grey Shoulder Knot x 1

Light Emerald x 1 #

Straw Dot x 1 #

Red Green Carpet x 8

Blair's Shoulder Knot x 5

Black Rustic x 8

Streak x 2

LBAM x 2

Angle Shades x 1 

LYU x 5

Square spot Rustic x 4

Spruce Carpet x 3

Acleris Spars x 2

Hypsopygia glaucinalis x 1 

Nov agg x 2

Whiteholme

Peacock 1

Lee Mount - 29th September

First November Moth agg for this autumn this morning on the fence by the trap.

Also a Black Rustic and 2 Large Yellow Underwings.

First day for a long time - no butterflies ! But what a great summer and autumn its been for them.

Cromwell Bottom

Speckled Wood 1

Lee Mount - recents...

Very few moths this last few days but always something of interest ! 

I always have to check this spelling !!

Merveille du Jour (25th September)

Still a few Garden Carpets, Common Marbled Carpets, Large Yellow Underwings, Copper Underwing agg, Shuttle-shaped Darts along with a Pink-barred Sallow and a Brick.

Also a Silver Y doing impressions of a Hummingbird Hawkmoth around the garden flowers.

This micro I find is a bit challenging and though it's a scarce one in Yorkshire I'm wondering about Ypsolopha alpella  - or is it just a fading Ypsolopha sylvella ?.... or something completely different !!

It will have to go down as a possible - with thanks for the help from CF

 

 

Lee Mount - 23rd September

 I think this one below is a very pale version of Ypsolopha sylvella

Also this morning. 1 Large Yellow Underwing and a Red-green Carpet.

A very attractive moth below -  Lunar Underwing

New Bank and Charlestown Road

Single Red Admirals

Lee Mount - 22nd September

Just two moths this morning.

A Rosy Rustic and Red-green Carpet

Maybe some more butterflies today - hopefully the sun will keep shining !

It did work out well in the garden with warm sunshine most of the day.

5 x Red Admirals, 2 x Large Whites, 2 Small Tortoiseshells and 2 Commas.

Also this Silver Y moth obliged on the last Buddleia flowers.

Lee Mount- 21st September

Pouring down all day yesterday so a few butterflies turned up today in the warm afternoon sunshine.  All favouring the late flowering and much loved Verbena bonariensis.

Red Admiral x 5

Comma x 1

Painted Lady x 1

Silver Y x 1

Painted Lady

Lee Mount - last few days to 19th September

Not a great deal to report as very few moths trapped on the whole.

This micro had me 'foxed' for a while but pretty sure it's a Garden Rose Tortrix (Acleris variegana) with the raised brown tufts. Seems to be living up to it's name variegana !

A nice surprise on 17th was this - 2nd record for here...

Dark Sword-grass (23mm)

This morning (19th) it was back to 13  Large Yellow Underwings, 2 Lesser Yellow Underwings, 3 Copper Undewings agg along with a  Light Emerald and these two below...

Black Rustic

Feathered Thorn

Early afternoon a Hummingbird Hawkmoth was another surprise. Firstly on Phlox flowers then onto Verbena bonariensis then it was off before I could get the camera and it did not seem to re-appear.

Also today 2 Red Admirals and a Large White - again on the Verbena b...