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30th June

                        

                           Green Arches (Photo: P Stevens)
Green Arches; Rochdale (P Stevens)

                        

                       Pretty Chalk Carpet (Photo: B Hancock)

                         
 
                           Haworth's Pug (Photo: B Hancock) 

Haworth's Pug (10), Pretty Chalk Carpet (3) ,V-pug, Double striped pug - netted at dusk around Traveller's Joy; Jack Scout (B Hancock) 

                         

                       Homoeosoma sinuella  (Photo: A Bunting)             

Homoeosoma sinuella; Martin Mere - new to the site (A Bunting)

29th June
                           

                             Small Ranunculus (Photo: P Hillyer)

Small Ranunculus; Hough Green, Widnes (P Hillyer) - fourth county record

28th June

                            

                                  Buff Arches (Photo: I Walker)
Buff Arches, Lime-speck Pug, V-Pug, Common Rustic; Boothstown (I Walker)

Pinion Streaked Snout, Small Yellow Wave, Garden Pebble, Light Emerald (27); Lower Burgh Meadow (E Langrish)

Eyed Hawk-moth (4); Heysham (J Holding)

Archips podana, Aleimma loeflingiana, Bryotropha domestica; Parbold (J Kilgour)

Plain Golden Y, Common Wainscot; Hale (C Cockbain)

Dun-bar, Light Emerald (17); Preston (A Powell)

                             

                                Heart and Club (Photo: D Bennett)

Heart and Club, Elephant Hawk-moth - new to garden list; Carnforth (D Bennett)

Light Emerald (12), Peach Blossom, Scorched Wing, Common Emerald, Poplar Hawk-moth (5), Purple Clay, Coleophora deauratella; Dalton VC59 (C Darbyshire)
 
27th June
Peach Blossom, Yellow Shell, Ghost Swift; King's Moss (C Darbyshire)

                               

                                    Acleris notana (Photo: B Smart)

                               

                         Acrocercops brongniardella (Photo: B Smart)

                               

                           Helcystogramma rufescens (Photo: B Smart)
Acrocercops brongniardella, Acleris notana, Carcina quercana, Helcystogramma rufescens all bred; Chorlton (B Smart)

Blotched Emerald, Small Yellow Wave, Lychnis, Tortrix viridana (31); Worden Park (A Barker, E Langrish)

Plain Golden Y, Green Arches; German Lane (E Langrish)

Small Elephant Hawk -moth, Green Arches; White Coppice (E Langrish)

Light Arches; Lower Burgh Meadows (E Langrish)

Common Emerald, Single-dotted Wave; Preston (S Palmer)
 

25th June

                         
                       Phlyctaenia coronata (Photo: B & G Wynn)
Phlyctaenia coronata; Wigan; (B & G Wynn)

24th June

                               
                                  
                                       Ash Pug (Photo: B Hancock)

Ash Pug; Yealand Conyers (B Hancock) this species is apparently very uncommon in Lancashire. 

Elephant Hawk-moth (20), Blackneck (10); Gatewarth, Warrington (J Clarke)

Sandy Carpet, Eyed Hawk-moth, Lime Hawk-moth, Garden Tiger, Miller, Light Arches, Knot-grass; Martin Mere (A Bunting)

25th June

Small Elephant Hawk-moth (2); Hesketh (I Kippax)

Celypha striana (new to garden); Hale (C Cockbain)

                                

                                    Double Dart (Photo: J Girdley)

Double Dart; Heysham (J Girdley)

                                

                                    Udea prunalis (Photo: C Barnes)

Udea prunalis; Lancaster (C Barnes)

Barred Straw, Garden Pebble; Sunderland Point (H&T Morbey-Ganly and J Girdley)

24th June

Humming-bird Hawk-moth; Atherton (K Brides)

Phycitodes maritima; Bay Horse (N Rogers) - this appears to be the first confirmed record for VC60

Six-spot Burnet (300); Lower Burgh Meadows (E Langrish)

Green Arches, Green Silver-lines, Dot Moth, Peach Blossom; Astley Village (E Langrish)

Dingy Shell, Dot Moth, Netted Pug, Grey Arches, Oblique Carpet, Muslin Footman (3); Leighton Moss (K Briggs et al)

Dingy Shears, Garden Tiger, Swallow-tailed Moth, Riband Wave; Morecambe (J Girdley)

                          

                          Figure of Eighty (Photo: I Walker)

Figure of Eighty; Boothstown (I Walker)

                               

                                    Plain Wave (Photo: C Barnes)

                               
                                                                                            
                                   Pandemis cinnamomeana (Photo: B Hancock)
                                              
Beautiful Carpet, Clouded Brindle (2); Plain Wave (2), Common Footman, Catoptria pinella, Pandemis cinnamomeana; Gait Barrows (R Petley-Jones et al)

23rd June 

                                 

                                    Barred Straw (Photo: I Walker)

Barred Straw; Worsley (I Walker)

Anania funebris; Gait Barrows NNR (A Storey)

Small Dotted Buff, Muslin Footman, Purple Clay (3), Northern Spinach, Green Arches; Cold Park Wood (J Girdley)

 Barred Yellow, Stenoptilia millieridactyla - third site in VC60; Silverdale (T Riden)

 Swallow-tailed Moth; Lancaster (C Barnes)
 
21st June 

                                 

                                      Puss Moth (Photo: J Girdley)

Puss Moth; Morecambe (J Girdley)

                               

                                     Grass Rivulet (Photo: J Girdley)

Grass Rivulet; Sunderland Point (H & T Morbey-Ganly, J Girdley)

20th June

Green Arches; Oswaldtwistle (B Clegg)

Coleophora prunifoliae (bred from case on Blackthorn); Gait Barrows (S Palmer) - New to Lancashire

19th June 
                           

                                Dingy Shears (Photo: J Girdley)

Dingy Shears; Morecambe (J Girdley)

Blood-vein; Silverdale (T Riden)

17th June 

                            

                                      Double Lobed (Photo: C Barnes)

Double Lobed, Obscure Wainscot, Dog's-tooth; Leighton Moss (S Palmer et al) 

                            
                                    Oblique Carpet (C Barnes)

Silver hook (6), Oblique Carpet; White Moss (B Hancock)
 

16th June 

                             

                               Hedya salicella  (Photo: K McCabe)

                             

                          Dichrorampha alpinana (Photo: K McCabe)  

Hedya salicella, Dichrorampha alpinana; Trafford Ecology Park (K McCabe)

Spilonota ocellana bred from Hawthorn; Chorlton (B Smart)

Wood Tiger (2); Longridge Fell (A Barker)

                              

                                  Garden Tigers (Photo: J Girdley)

Garden Tiger (2); Morecambe (J Girdley)

14th June 
                          

                             Green Arches (Photo: E Langrish)

Green Arches; Coppull (E Langrish)

11th June 

                             

                              Apodia bifractella (Photo: K McCabe)

Apodia bifractella (5) reared from Fleabane flower heads; Heysham (K McCabe)

10th June 

                                  

                                 Silver Hook (Photo: B Hancock)

Silver Hook; nr Yealand Redmayne (B Hancock)

9th June 

                                

                      Red-necked Footman (Photo: J Newton)

Red-necked Footman; Warton Crag (J Newton)

Lime Hawk-moth, Purple Clay; Rainford (A Cheney)

Scorched Wing; Worsley and Pale-shouldered Brocade; Boothstown (I Walker)

8th June

Figure of Eighty; Boothstown (I Walker)

                             

                               Swallow Prominent (Photo: N Rogers)

 Swallow Prominent; Bay Horse (N Rogers)

7th June - National Moth Day and Night

See National Moth Night section

6th June

Clouded Magpie (20+), Treble Lines, Square Spot; Dalton (J Girdley, P Marsh)

Silver Hook; Flixton (K McCabe) - new species for site 

Obscure Wainscot; Haweswater (P&A Palmer)

Turnip Moth, Snout; Hale (C Cockbain)

Scorched Wing, Peach Blossom, Miller, Map-winged Swift, Beautiful Golden Y (2), Light Emerald, Oak Hook Tip: Lower Burgh Meadows (E Langrish)

                             

                           Small Elephant Hawk-moth (E Langrish)

Small Elephant Hawk-moth; White Coppice (E Langrish)
5th June

Seraphim; Preston (A Bunting)

                                 

                    Lesser Swallow Prominent (Photo: A Thomas)

                            

                           Poplar Hawk-moth (Photo: A Thomas)

Lesser Swallow Prominent, Poplar Hawk-moth; Rainford (A Cheney)

                                    
                        Tinea semifulvella  (Photo: I Walker)        

Ruby Tiger, Tinea semifulvella; Worsley (I Walker)
The Saxon; Haweswater (A & P Palmer) - New to Lancashire

Small Clouded Brindle, Dog's-tooth, Brown Rustic; Carnforth (D Bennett)
Hebrew Character; Oswaldtwistle (B Clegg) - a very late record

                             

                         Glyphipterix thrasonella (Photo: C Barnes)

Glyphipterix thrasonella; Lancaster (C Barnes)

 
4th June 

                            

                             Currant Clearwing (Photo: I Walker)

Currant Clearwing attracted to pheromone lure; Worsley (I Walker)

The Shears; Haweswater (A&P Palmer)
Beautiful Golden Y, Bloodvein (2); Flixton (K McCabe)

                                                  

                            Dark Dagger (Photo: B Smart) 
                               
Dark Dagger - bred from larvae (B Smart) - this is the only reliable way of separating Dark and Grey Dagger without dissection of the adults.

4th June

Common Wainscot (4); Hale (C Cockbain)
 
3rd June 

                          

                           Caloptilia alchimiella (Photo: C Barnes)

Caloptilia alchimiella; Gait Barrows (S Palmer) -
Clouded Magpie; Dalton (S Palmer)

Little Emerald (5), Gait Barrows (S Palmer, R Petley-Jones et al)
Aleimma loeflingiana (two colour forms, bred); Rixton (B Smart) 
                           

                                     Puss Moth (K McCabe)

Puss Moth; last seen at Flixton in 2000 (K McCabe) 


                            

                          Rustic Shoulder-knot (Photo: P Stevens)

Rustic Shoulder-knot; Rochdale (P Stevens)
 

2nd June 

                              

                             Chimney Sweeper (Photo: E Langrish)

Chimney Sweeper, Straw Dot (50+); Charnock Richard (A Barker, E Langrish) - 
                             

                                  Gold Spot (Photo: J Girdley)

 Oblique Carpet, Sandy Carpet, Lychnis, Gold Spot; Sunderland Point (J Girdley, T & H Morbey-Ganly)

Small Yellow Wave, Foxglove Pug, Cream Wave, Beautiful Snout, Devon Carpet, Lunar Thorn, Alder Moth, Alder Kitten; Lord's Lot Wood (P Marsh et al)

 Willow Beauty, Epinotia bilunana; Lostock Hall (R Hall)

 Marsh Pug, Yellow Shell (2), Silver Y (6); Heysham NR (S Palmer)

Hysterophora maculosana; Bay Horse (N Rogers) - first since 2003 and only third record for VC60

Alder Moth, May Highflyer (19), Poplar Grey, Miller, Figure of 80; Preston (S Palmer)

Yellow Shell (2), Marsh Pug (very worn) Heysham NR (S Palmer)

 1st June

Mottled Rustic, Lime Hawk-moth, Red-green Carpet (the over-wintering moths still hang on!); Wigan (B&G Wynn)

Devon Carpet (2); Lord's Lot Wood (J Girdley, P Marsh) - NEW COUNTY RECORD

31st May 

                               

                             Small Dusty Wave (Photo: C Raby)    

Small Dusty Wave; Bispham (C Raby)
Peach Blossom, Chinese Character,Small Angle Shades, Setaceous Hebrew Character; White Coppice (E Langrish)

 Elephant Hawk Moth, Poplar Hawk-moth, Figure of Eighty, Rivulet, Pale Tussock, Spectacle; Coppull (E Langrish)

 Bryotropha affinis (2), Epiblema cynosbatella, Pale-shouldered Brocade, Flame, White-pinion Spotted, Peach Blossom (2), Middle-barred Minor, Rhyacionia pinivorana, Epinotia tedella; last two new to Chris's well recorded Billinge site (C Darbyshire)

Rhyacionia pinivorana; Flixton (K McCabe) - new for Kevin's well recorded site (cf also new in Billinge)

                            

                             Eulia ministrana (Photo: R Griffiths)

 Eulia ministrana; Silverdale (R Griffiths)

Ancylis myrtillana; Heysham (J Holding)
 

30th May

Psychoides filicivora, Small Angle Shades, Bright-line Brown-eye, Cabbage Moth; Lostock Hall (R Hall)
Lime Hawk-moth; Preston (A Powell)

Scorched Wing; White Coppice (E Langrish)

                            

                             Ancyllis myrtllana (Photo: J Holding)

Ancylis myrtillana; Bentham (B Hugo det J Holding)

29th May

Elephant Hawk-moth, Small Elephant Hawk-moth, Seraphim, Peppered Moth (2), Alder Moth, Chinese Character, Scorched Wing; Silverdale (T Riden)

                            

                                 Shaded Pug (Photo: D Bennett)

Shaded Pug; Carnforth (D Bennett)

 Brimstone Moth, Grey Pine Carpet, Scalloped Hazel; Oswaldtwistle (B Clegg)

 Tawny Shears; Warton (M Elsworth)
Clouded Silver, an early Large Yellow Underwing; Euxton (R Hoult)

                             

                                   Small Angle Shades (Photo: A Cheney)

Small Angle Shades; Rainford (A Cheney)
 
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