Butterflies and Moths of Yorkshire

YNU Lepidoptera group - New website www.yorkshiremoths.info for information on all Yorkshire's moths, including photos and species distribution maps.

To discover which butterflies can be found in Yorkshire, and in which vice-county they have been seen, look at the Checklist of Yorkshire's butterflies.

Jointly with Butterfly Conservation, Yorkshire

Butterfly Recording Co-ordinators:

VC61: S Clough, 51 Thoresby Street, Hull, HU5 3RA, Tel: 01482 448088, e-mail: sean@51thor.karoo.co.uk

VC62: D O'Brien, 30 Appleton Road, Linthorpe, Middlesborough, TS5 5JE, Tel: 01642 290379 e-mail: d.obrien6@ntlworld.com

VC63: R Bedford, 23 Manor Rise, Walton, Wakefield, WF2 6PF, Tel: 01924 257065

VC64: T Whitaker, 4 Crowtrees, Low Bentham, Lancaster, LA2 7EE, Tel: 01524 262269 e-mail: t.whitaker1@btinternet.com

VC65: T Whittaker, as above

Moth Recording Co-ordinators:

VC61: A Ezard, Greenacre Cottage, Eastgate, Rudston, YO25 4UX, Tel: 01262 420276 e-mail: anthony.ezard@homecall.co.uk

VC62: E Chesmore, 39 Hawthorne Drive, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, York, YO43 4HX Tel: 01430 861964 e-mail: edc1@ohm.york.ac.uk

VC63: M Couling, 'High Up', Binns Lane, Holmfirth, HD9 3BJ, Tel: 01484 685286 e-mail: mike_couling@yahoo.co.uk

VC64 & VC65: C Fletcher, The Forge, Hutton Conyers, Ripon, Tel: 01765 600586 e-mail: chfletcher@btinternet.com Dr Fletcher holds the county macro-moth database of records collected since 2000 using Mapmate (TM) software.

Joint project co-ordinators:

Micro-moths database: H E Beaumont, 37 Melton Green, West Melton, Rotherham S63 6AA

Butterflies database: H M Frost, 10 Chellsway, Withernsea, HU19 2EN, Tel: 01964 613671 e-mail: frost283@btinternet.com. Holds the County butterfly records since 1995 on Levana software.

Historic macro-moth database: P Q Winter, West End Farm, Muston, Filey  Tel: 01723 512218. Holds electronic data to 2000 and hard copy of butterfly records.

The Lepidoptera group

New website www.yorkshiremoths.info for information on all Yorkshire's moths, including photos and species distribution maps.

Chairman:   D. Chesmore, 39 Hawthorne Drive, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, York, YO43 4HX. Tel: 01430 861964.

LepNETYorkshire is a joint recording scheme with the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union and Butterfly Conservation, Yorkshire Branch as partners.