Autumn #2

The second session for autumn on a night with a bit of light drizzle again saw a relatively small number of moths come in from the garden with no sign of Hepialids. Just six photos of the most interesting were retained. The first is (Leucania) obusta, a very fresh individual of a species whose life history is not well known, a possible first record for the location.

The Orange-rimmed Satin Moth, Thalaina selenaea.

The Lemon Gum Moth, Plesanemma fucata.

The Grey-patch Bark-moth, Scioglyptis chionomera.

The Australian Cabbage Looper, Chrysodeixis subsidens having a bad hair day.

Another first, a Tortricid, Cryptoptila immersia.

Recount.

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.