GEOMETRIDS: 1 - 59

70.008 Small Dusty Wave netted at dusk in my garden at Skircoat Green on July 4th 2017. What made it stand out as something different was its tiny size which made it resemble a pale pug.

70.011  Single-dotted Wave, netted at dusk at Bankhouse wood on July 17th 2010.

70.013 Small Fan-footed Wave by the Calder at Milner Royd, July 31st 2010. Captured by day.

70.013 Small Fan-footed Wave nectaring at dusk on the garden Heleniums at Skircoat Green on June 25th 2017.

70.016 Riband Wave at North Dean meadow, July 15th 06.

70.018 Plain Wave to actinic light at Turgate Delph, Norland on July 13th 2022. This one was resting in Bilberry next to the trap the following morning.

70.029 Blood-vein at North Loop, Cromwell Bottom, June 10th 2018. A scarce species in Calderdale if past records are anything to go by. A field observation, this one looks in fine fettle and has probably just emerged in the last day or so.

70.029 Blood-vein at Hollas Lane Nature Reserve on June 12th 2018. A good year for this species for what was once a local rarity.

70.0281 Petite Wave (Scopula minorata) (Above and below) at Skircoat Green on Feb.15th 2013. My mum was dressing a cabbage for dinner (which had been imported from Spain) when this moth flew out, it was barely alive as it crash-landed on to the draining board and in to a small pool of water. It was pretty small with a forewing of just 9mm which seemed strange for what looked like a macro. Thinking it was something "good" I immediately photographed it in situ (top photo) before potting it up and popping it in the freezer. The next day the light was a little better allowing the photo below to be taken. I then sent it off to Harry Beaumont for a more detailed examination and he identified it as a male Scopula minorata, a species not recorded before in the UK. It will of course go down as an accidental import and not on to the main list but exciting none the less!

70.037 Clay Triple-lines to MV light at Cock Hill wood, Portsmouth on June 23rd 2023. This was a welcome surprise in the trap as neither of us had seen a geometrid like it before.

It was photographed on a lichen covered wall under a spruce tree (see below).

The MV light at Cock Hill wood, Portsmouth on June 23rd 2023. The above photo was taken on the wall shaded by the magnificent spruce tree.

70.038 Vestal photographed at dusk on a wine rope in my garden at Skircoat Green on Sept. 12th 06. This is my only record of this scarce immigrant to Calderdale. I wonder which countries this moth had flown over before it reached my small back garden and sniffed out my wine and sugar concoction!

70.038 Vestal, the same moth as above with the proboscis clearly visible as it sips the sugar and wine solution. It's events like this that makes mothing so rewarding.

70.045 Shade Broad-bar at Tag Loop, June 14th 2014. A field observation. 

70.049 Garden Carpet on the garage wall at Skircoat Green on Sept. 3rd 2012. Just about the only geometrid to be found during the day in the garden at this time of year.

70.052  Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet, one of two to light at the cabin at Cromwell Bottom, July 14th 2018.

70.053 Flame Carpet disturbed by day at Hollas Mill Lane, Copley, May 14th 2019.

70.054 Silver Ground Carpet at Bankhouse Orchard, June 3rd 05. A field observation.

70.054 Silver Ground Carpet, Bankhouse orchard, May 26th 2014. A field observation on Hogweed.

70.055 Large Twin-spot Carpet to MV light at North Loop, Cromwell Bottom on July 9th 2023.

70.059 Yellow Shell at Tag Meadow, Cromwell Bottom, July 3rd 06.

70.059 Yellow Shell at Tag Meadow, Cromwell Bottom, June 14th 2014. Eyes swivelled and locked on to me.

70.059 Yellow Shell nectaring on Ragwort at Tag Meadow, Cromwell Bottom, July 25th 2015.