NOCTUIDS: 169 - 193


73.169 Common Rustic  female found nectaring on the garden Buddleia after dusk on Aug. 12th 2019. Gen. det. (CS).
 
73.169 Common Rustic agg.  nectaring on the garden Heleniums prior to flight, Aug.1st 2017. Bit of a fluke this shot as it took flight a fraction of a second before I pressed the button.

73.170 Lesser Common Rustic male to MV light at Cromwell Bottom on Aug. 5th 2023. Gen. det. (CS).
Of the five taken to ID three were Lesser Common Rustics and the other two were Common Rustics.

73.170 Lesser Common Rustic female to MV light at Cromwell Bottom on Aug. 5th 2023. Gen. det. (CS).

73.170 Lesser Common Rustic, a male to MV light at my new place in Luddenden Foot on July 28th 2022. Of five Common Rustic aggs. collected for examination that morning, four were Commons and one was a Lesser. They were four males and one female.

73.171 Rosy Minor to MV light at Manshead moor plantation, Ripponden on Aug. 11th 2023. One of my favourite noctuids with it's subtle red and grey colour scheme.
 
73.172 Cloaked Minor nectaring on Ragwort at All Saints' graveyard on Aug. 5th 2017.

73.172 Cloaked Minor male to MV light at Clock Face quarry on Aug. 10th 2023.
 
73.173 Marbled Minor male to light at Cromwell Bottom NR, June 30th 2018. Gen. det. (CS).

73.173 Marbled Minor to MV light at Mirey Wall farm near Sowerby on June 24th 2022. Gen. det. (CS).

73.174 Tawny Marbled Minor to MV light at Sarah Flood's place at Cock Hill farm near Cragg Vale on July 9th 2022. Gen. det. (CS).

73.175 Rufous Minor to MV light at Mirey Wall farm, Sowerby on July 10th 2021. Gen. det. (CS).
 
73.176 Middle-barred Minor to MV light at the cabin, Cromwell Bottom, June 16th 2018. A male, gen. det. (CS).
 
73.180 Barred Sallow at Gosport Clough on Oct. 20th 2018 It was found during a fungi foray by an obliging Halifax Scientific Society member. A daytime observation on a Beech leaf which also happens to be it's main foodplant. 

73.181 Pink-barred Sallow on the roadside at West Vale on Oct. 14th 2016. A daytime observation on a dry stone wall.

73.181 Pink-barred Sallow to MV light at Manshead moor plantation, Ripponden on Sept. 10th 2023.

73.182 Sallows to MV light at my new place in Luddenden Foot on Aug. 20th 2022.

73.187 Brown-spot Pinion to MV light at my new place at Luddenden Foot on Sept. 21st 2021. Just 7 moths so far in 3 hours trapping over three nights :-(

73.188 Flounced Chestnut, one of four to MV light at Norland moor on Sept. 10th 2021.

73.189 Red-line Quaker to light at Norland moor on Oct. 9th 2021.

73.189 Red-line Quaker larva found on spun Sallow leaves at Copley meadow, Apr. 27th 2009.

73.190 Yellow-line Quaker feeding on a sugar mixture at Gorpley Clough, Oct. 26th 2008.

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. 

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