Cumbria Day-Flying Moth Sightings

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Date Species Number Life Stage Site Town Grid Ref. V. County Recorder Comment Image
15 Aug 2023 Hummingbird Hawk-moth 1 Adult Garden Keswick NY270231 VC70 Cumberland Tim Dixon
8 Jul 2023 Hummingbird Hawk-moth 1 Adult Garden Keswick NY270231 VC70 Cumberland Tim Dixon
22 Jun 2023 Narrow-bordered 5-spot Burnet 1 Adult Woodside Keswick NY222324 VC70 Cumberland Nicole Towler I’ve spotted these a number of times in. Y garden. This is the (...)
4 Aug 2022 Silver Y 1 Adult Garden Keswick NY270231 VC70 Cumberland Lorna Swift and Tim Dixon
23 Jul 2022 Shaded Broad-bar 2 Adult A66 road verge Keswick NY252242 VC70 Cumberland Tony Marsh Overcast. Beside busy A road. 37769.jpeg
16 Jul 2022 Hummingbird Hawk-moth 1 Adult Garden Keswick NY270231 VC70 Cumberland Tim Dixon
30 Jun 2022 Chimney Sweeper 1 Adult Path near Castlehead Keswick NY268226 VC70 Cumberland Lorna Swift and Tim Dixon
23 Jun 2022 Silver-ground Carpet 1 Adult Castle Crag Fort Keswick NY300189 VC70 Cumberland Roger Fellows
23 Jun 2022 Common Carpet 1 Adult Raven Crag Keswick NY303188 VC70 Cumberland Roger Fellows
23 Jun 2022 Green Carpet 1 Adult Raven Crag Keswick NY298200 VC70 Cumberland Roger Fellows
23 Jun 2022 Chimney Sweeper 1 Adult Thirlmere Keswick NY307190 VC70 Cumberland Roger Fellows
23 Jun 2022 Chimney Sweeper 1 Adult Thirlmere Keswick NY306189 VC70 Cumberland Roger Fellows
23 Jun 2022 Cinnabar 1 Adult Thirlmere Keswick NY305190 VC70 Cumberland Roger Fellows
16 Jun 2022 Smoky Wainscot 2 Adult Keswick Isthmus Keswick NY259229 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Smoky Wainscot, feeding actively in daytime, long vegetation (...) 36952.jpeg
19 Sep 2021 Silver Y 1 Adult Garden Keswick NY270231 VC70 Cumberland T Dixon
6 Aug 2020 Silver Y 1 Adult Cummacatta Wood Keswick NY253169 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Only 3 butterflies during a couple of sunny hours in the (...)
29 Jul 2020 Knot Grass 1 Adult Nr Threlkeld Keswick NY324250 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Larva. On a sunny bank but adjacent to marshy meadow below (...) 28020.jpeg
29 Jul 2020 Shaded Broad-bar 1 Adult Nr Threlkeld Keswick NY324250 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Close to R. Glenderamackin below the Mining Museum 28019.jpeg
21 Jul 2020 Northern Spinach 10 Adult Near Bassenthwaite Keswick NY224362 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Lots of different moths flying around the heather at ~ 400m at (...)
21 Jul 2020 Twin-spot Carpet 10 Adult Near Bassenthwaite Keswick NY224362 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Lots of different moths flying around the heather at ~ 400m at (...)
20 Jul 2020 Green Carpet 10 Adult Near Bassenthwaite Keswick NY224362 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Lots of different moths flying around the heather at ~ 400m at (...) 27834.jpeg
18 Jul 2020 Silver Y 1 Adult Newlands Beck embankment Keswick NY237251 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh
10 Jul 2020 Celypha lacunana 1 Adult Cummacatta Wood Keswick NY255164 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh 27456.jpeg
9 Jul 2020 Cinnabar 100 Adult Cummacatta Wood Keswick NY253166 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Large numbers of caterpillars on Ragwort 27462.jpeg
9 Jul 2020 Straw Dot 1 Adult Cummacatta Wood Keswick NY255164 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh
25 Jun 2020 Cinnabar 1 Adult Cummacatta Wood Keswick NY254170 VC70 Cumberland Mike Porter
17 Jun 2020 Chimney Sweeper 12 Adult Ashness Bridge NT Car Park Keswick NY269196 VC70 Cumberland Tony Marsh Including mating pair 26965.jpeg
8 Jun 2020 Forester 1 Adult near Keswick Keswick NY262237 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Between Derwent Water and Bass. lake. Location deliberately kept (...)
1 Jun 2020 Chimney Sweeper 12 Adult Shore of Bass Lake Keswick NY223268 VC70 Cumberland Mike Porter
17 May 2020 Brown Silver-line 1 Adult Between Ashness Bridge and Great Wood Keswick NY271199 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Flying settling on path 25612.jpeg
17 May 2020 Speckled Yellow 1 Adult Between Ashness Bridge and Great Wood Keswick NY271199 VC70 Cumberland Anthony Marsh Flying and settling in grass. Slightly battered specimen 25613.jpeg
27 Jun 2019 Chimney Sweeper 1 Adult near Dale Bottom Farm Keswick NY295218 VC70 Cumberland Mike Porter
24 Jun 2019 Chimney Sweeper 1 Adult Friar's Crag Keswick NY265221 VC70 Cumberland Jeremy Bartlett
5 Sep 2018 Silver Y 1 Adult Lingholm Estate Keswick NY2522 VC70 Cumberland Mike Porter Sunny.
30 May 2018 Silver-ground Carpet 1 Adult Derwentwater Hostel Keswick NY268200 VC70 Cumberland Alex Helliwell
15 Sep 2017 Small Dusty Wave 1 Adult Elliot Park Keswick NY262236 VC70 Cumberland David Stebbings Small Dusty Wave - Idaea seriata Indoors on kitchen wall. (...)
13 Jul 2017 Clouded Magpie 1 Adult Great Wood, Borrowdale Keswick NY271214 VC70 Cumberland Tony Marsh Clouded Magpie Moth. On footpath just South of the Car Park 10556.jpeg
1 Jul 2017 Agapeta zoegana 1 Adult Threlkeld Keswick NY316250 VC70 Cumberland John Mounsey Agapeta zoegana. Flitting about in roadside verge.
24 Jun 2017 Chimney Sweeper 1 Adult Latrigg Keswick NY274251 VC70 Cumberland Roger Fellows
23 Jul 2015 Red Carpet 2 Adult Skiddaw Keswick NY261290 VC70 Cumberland Roger Fellows red carpet #new hiding under slates in the scree 2971.jpeg
12 Jun 2015 Common Heath 4 Adult Glenderaterra Keswick NY293284 VC70 Cumberland Karen Mclellan
12 Jun 2015 Common Heath 4 Adult Skiddaw House Keswick NY301316 VC70 Cumberland Karen Mclellan
12 Jun 2015 Common Heath 50 Adult Snab Keswick NY318322 VC70 Cumberland Karen Mclellan There must have been 100s here on the heather
26 May 2014 Speckled Yellow 3 Adult Longside Wood Keswick NY238281 VC70 Cumberland Brian Snell Flying in sunny glade.

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