73: NOCTUIDS: 190 - 224

73.190 Yellow-line Quaker to MV light near Bower's Mill, Barkisland on Sept. 22nd 2024.

73.192 Brick (left) and Chestnut feeding on a sugar mixture put down by Brian Leecy at Gorpley Clough, Oct. 26th 2008. 

73.193 Lunar Underwing captured by day in Alison Galbraith's garden in Mytholmroyd on Sept. 23rd 2021. 

73.194 Chestnut, Bankhouse Wood, Oct. 14th 2010. Nectaring on Ivy blossom at dusk.

73.194 Chestnut feeding on a sugar solution in my garden at Skircoat Green on Sept. 28th 2006.

73.201 Pale Pinion on the bridge parapet at the river Calder at Copley, Sept. 11th 2006.

73.202 Grey Shoulder-knot, one of two to MV light near Bower's Mill, Barkisland, Mar. 8th 2026.

73.207 Golden-rod Brindle, one of three to light at Turgate Delph, Norland on Aug. 11th 2022. This species seems readily available here at this time of year.

73.209 Red Sword-grass feeding on a sugar solution at dusk at Gorpley Clough on Oct. 26th 08.

73.209 Red Sword-grass, New Lane, Skircoat Green, Mar 7th 06. A field observation in the steady drizzle. Other records are singles at Skircoat Green in 2012 and  Jan. 21st 2014 and one near Heath Lane, Halifax in Dec. 2013. All were resting openly on dry stone walls.

73.210 Satellite feeding on a sugar solution at night at Gorpley Clough, Oct. 26th 08.

73.210 Satellite, one of two to a LepiLED trap at Clock Face Quarry, Krumlin, Mar, 9th 2026. This one has the orange "moons" and "planet" markings.

73.211 Angle-striped Sallow, one of five to MV light at the cabin, Cromwell Bottom, Aug. 3rd 2018.

73.213 Olive to MV light in my garden at Luddenden Foot on July 20th 2022. The morning after the hottest day on record and a night-time low of around 18 degrees. I wasn't expecting many moths that night in my ecological desert of a garden so I was quite overwhelmed when around 275 moths of 70 species showed up, three of them were lifers for me.

73.216 Dun-bar at dusk on the garden Laurel bush at Skircoat Green, July 27th 2006.

73.216 Dun-bar June 5th 2018. Reared from a larva spun up in Blackthorn leaves at Park Wood Crematorium on May 7th that year.

73.219 Centre-barred Sallow to MV light near Bower's Mill, Barkisland on Aug. 16th 2025.

73.221 Suspected to MV light at the cabin, Cromwell Bottom, July 13th 2019. A nice reddish/brown, fresh specimen.

73.222 Dingy Shears to MV light at the cabin, Cromwell Bottom, July 13th 2019.

73.222 Dingy Shears to MV light at the cabin, Cromwell Bottom, July 1st 2018.

73.224 Merveille du Jour to MV light at North Loop, Cromwell Bottom on Oct. 8th 2023. The "wonder of the day" was sitting on the outside of the trap just waiting to be admired.

73.224 Merveille du Jour. A close-up of the moth above. Simply stunning!