Spring 2025

The first session for this spring saw a reasonable number of species come in from the garden, including one new Geometrid record, Visiana brujata, rather worn but with enough detail for identification.

A very fresh female Black Geometrid, Melanodes anthracitaria.

A patched Cleora , MOV species 2.

An attractive Noctuid, Ectopatria horologa.

A well marked Chrysodeixis argentifera, taken fluttering up the sheet.

A Notodontid, Destolmia lineata.

The first plume moth for a considerable time, Stenoptilia zophodactylis

And the last moth to the sheet, a Coprosma Hawk Moth, Hippotion scrofa.

Oxycanus australis

March to June are the flight months for this species, and true to form thisĀ  nice specimen was found on the door mat last night, click to enlarge. The larvae feed on acacia roots, and a search under the Snowy River wattle next morning found the pupa case.