Moths of Central and East Gippsland
A good fall amounting to 43mm, and time to fire up the lamp to see if the rain moths had reacted. Sure enough, one soon came in, a nice male Abantiades atripalpis.
It was however the only one in a relatively short session, with the only other moths braving the rain being a few Noctuids, mainly Proteuxoa tortisigna which were quite numerous.
Another check under the Snowy River Wattle while gardening revealed a lot more empty Oxycanus australis pupa cases than first noted three weeks ago, and after being collected the number came to a rather astonishing seventy five.
As mentioned in the previous post the larvae feed on acacia roots, and as can be seen in the first picture they certainly haven’t bothered the shrub that continues to bud up and thrive and put on new growth at the base after being cut back.