{"id":2111,"date":"2019-08-22T23:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2019-08-22T23:01:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:01:27","slug":"the-bark-moths-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2019\/08\/22\/the-bark-moths-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bark Moths, #1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the first in a series on Ennominae moths detailed in Volume Seven of Moths of Victoria, with the majority from the tribe Boarmiini. As the name suggests, the colours and patterns resemble tree bark, enabling them to blend into backgrounds and escape detection by predators. Moths from twenty two genera will be included, photographed mainly in local forest sites during the last ten years. To begin, an image of a female Sinister Moth from the native garden. Like a number of species, males are most often to the light, females less so. The larvae feed on the foliage of a variety of trees and shrubs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pholodes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sinister Moth, Pholodes sinistraria, female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/pholodesf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/pholodesfb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/pholodesm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/pholodesmb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gastrinodes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Buff Bark Moth, G. bitaeniaria, male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/gastbit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/gastbitb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/gastarg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/gastargb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Euphronarcha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Striated Bark Moth, Euphronarcha luxaria, male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/euphm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/euphmb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/euphf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/euphfb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boarmiini.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MOV species 1,\u00a0 male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/boar1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/boar1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"446\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Selidosema)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the status of these two moths and the above please refer to MOV Volume 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Uniform Bark Moth, (Selidosema) agoraea, male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/agom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/agomb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/agof2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/agof2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Clouded Bark Moth, (Selidosema) thermaea, female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/therm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/geometrids\/thermb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Click to enlarge,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>References and further reading,<br \/>\nMoths of Victoria Volume 7.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To be continued.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the first in a series on Ennominae moths detailed in Volume Seven of Moths of Victoria, with the majority from the tribe Boarmiini. As the name suggests, the colours and patterns resemble tree bark, enabling them to blend into backgrounds and escape detection by predators. Moths from twenty two genera will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2019\/08\/22\/the-bark-moths-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bark Moths, #1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geometridae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}