Starting to get busy in the moth trap with 262 moths of 84 species last night. If there's one moth that matches the weather it has to be this Small Yellow Wave ☀️🦋☀️#VC64 #Otley Bradford Nature Wildlife Friendly Otley WildaboutOtley.bsky.social

Turn the picture upside down and it’s the head of a mouse

On our seven Walking Festival walks we met some great people and saw some wonderful wildlife, including this fantastic Poplar Hawk Moth. One wildlife gardens walk finished at the home of Aidan Smith, who trapped this beauty (he has previously caught 545 different species there!).

If this is Norway Maple then the mine on the key would be that of the moth Etainia sericopeza - a second record for #VC64 and a first for Wharfedale. Just blown off the tree down by the river in #Otley Bradford Nature Wildlife Friendly Otley WildaboutOtley.bsky.social

Apotomis sauciana (Least Marble) - Netted on the Chevin among the bilberries this afternoon. It's the second record for this location, the first being Porritt's in 1883 #VC64 Bradford Nature Wildlife Friendly Otley WildaboutOtley.bsky.social

110 moths of 47 species in the traps last night. Small Fan-footed Wave f. fimbriolata, 2nd generation Early Thorn, and a presumed Grapholita funebrana (Plum Fruit Moth) that's new for Wharfedale. 373 moths of 79 species on the same date last year! #VC64 #Otley Bradford Nature

I've never manged to find this pug where it belongs among the bilberries. But in 2020 I found it on a crash barrier down the road and last night it became a garden tick. Numbers looking better last night with 293 moths of 88 species in the garden traps #VC64 #Otley

Quite wet last night so trap undercover. 98 moths of 33 species including Eudemis profundana (Oak Marble) - a new moth for me 💚🦋 #VC64 #Otley Bradford Nature Wildlife Friendly Otley WildaboutOtley.bsky.social

Moonlighting in VC10. Feels like cheating when compared to the home patch in VC64. Radford's Flame Shoulder, Rosy Footman, Four-spotted Footman 💚🦋

Totland, IoW. Fewer moths in the trap last night with the breeze, but this immaculate Portland Ribbon Wave was a real treat. On the intruder front, it was nice to find Necrodes littoralis (Shore Sexton Beetle) 💚🦋🪲

It’s not been a good year for moths, but one of the exceptions in my garden is Dusky Thorn. 32 trapped last night, with my previous best of 18 set last year #VC64 #Otley

A camera shy Red Underwing sheltering from the rain 💚🦋 #VC64 #Otley Bradford Nature

Epermenia chaerophyllella (Common Ridge-back) - a new moth for my garden and Wharfedale that I found while setting the moth trap up yesterday evening 💚🦋 Bradford Nature British Moths

For those taking a night off because it’s a bit damp out - I’ve just picked Palpita vitrealis off the wall by my trap. Until tonight, any good migrant action this year seems to have missed me here in #VC64, #Otley Bradford Nature Migrant Lepidoptera

Back of the camera shot - Otley

Figure of Eight - A moth that just about hangs on locally with an annual record in the Otley area most years. After a gap of 5 years it was my turn. #VC64 #Otley Wildlife Friendly Otley WildaboutOtley.bsky.social Bradford Nature British Moths

Stigmella myrtillella (Bilberry Dot) - There's probably loads of these out there to be found, but it's only the second record for #VC64. The first being in 1883. #Otley #Chevin #moths British Moths Bradford Nature Wildlife Friendly Otley WildaboutOtley.bsky.social

Fewer and fewer moths each time I put the trap out this week , but still 15 moths of 10 species last night. Among them was Northern Winter Moth, an occasional visitor to the garden that's easier to find in the woodland up the road #VC64 #Otley Bradford Nature British Moths

Out near the Strid at Bolton Abbey today. What a great tree this was. Lots of blister mines (a few of which are now spending the winter in my wood store) and the feeding signs and hole left by Heliozela sericiella the Oak Cutter. #VC64 Bradford Nature

There seems to be a migration taking place this November with many of the moth community heading over to Bluesky. If you're not there already I hope to see you there soon. Same handle. Posts on here may dwindle Bradford Nature British Moths Charles Fletcher