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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Another session at home with some interesting arrivals at the sheet. As previously mentioned, Psychids have been abundant on the garden trees and again adults came to the light. First, two more shots of Clania ignobilis.

A Lomera species.

The first Cossid for a while, Culama australis.

An Eyespot Anthelid, Anthela ocellata.

The second home record of Pernattia pusilla, the She-oak Moth. Despite searches, larvae have not yet been found on either of the Allocasuarinas, littoralis and torulosa.

On this night Epyaxa subidaria was very abundant, this was a nice specimen.

Another Geometrid, Gastrina cristaria, the Wave-lined Geometrid.

And another, a real surprise, Rhinodia rostraria, the Necklace Geometrid. This has only previously come to the light at locations out in the bush.

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