Quite an interesting session at home on a coolish night, just two moths featured for now with several pictures of these very photogenic species.. There will be more in the next episode. A hawk moth zoomed in to the light but didn’t stay, returned a couple of more times then settled on the edge of the concrete where it was photographed. It was then happy to be carefully moved to the sheet for more snaps.

Hippotion scrofa.

The Showy Geometrid, Niceteria macrocosma is described in MOV Vol. 5 as a moth of wet forests and heathlands. Previous records have been in the former, so it was a surprise to have a nice specimen come in from the garden eucalypts situated in dry farmland.

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