30th June

Green Arches
(Photo: P Stevens)
Green Arches; Rochdale (P Stevens)
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Pretty
Chalk Carpet (Photo: B Hancock)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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Figure of Eighty (Photo: I Walker)
Figure of Eighty; Boothstown (I Walker)

Plain Wave (Photo: C
Barnes)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Hedya salicella (Photo: K McCabe)
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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)
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Garden Tigers (Photo: J Girdley)
Garden Tiger (2); Morecambe (J Girdley)
14th June
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Green Arches
(Photo: E Langrish)
Green Arches; Coppull (E Langrish)
11th June
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Apodia bifractella (Photo: K McCabe)
Apodia bifractella
(5) reared from Fleabane flower heads; Heysham (K McCabe)
10th June
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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)
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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)
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Lesser
Swallow Prominent (Photo: A Thomas)
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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
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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)
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Puss Moth (K McCabe)
Puss Moth; last seen at Flixton in 2000 (K McCabe)
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Rustic Shoulder-knot (Photo: P Stevens)
Rustic Shoulder-knot; Rochdale (P Stevens)
2nd June
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Chimney Sweeper (Photo: E Langrish)
Chimney Sweeper, Straw Dot (50+); Charnock Richard (A Barker, E Langrish) -
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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)
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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)
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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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