{"id":2808,"date":"2020-11-14T03:50:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2020-11-14T03:50:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T03:50:18","slug":"tebenna-micalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2020\/11\/14\/tebenna-micalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tebenna micalis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aka the Small Thistle Moth, (Choreutinae) the larvae of which have a liking for the foliage of the garden Xerochrysums. This year a plant germinated from a stray seed that had fallen beside the house wall, and it is now in flower.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths20\/xerob.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"590\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While admiring it, a small movement caught the eye, and betrayed the tiny moth that flew up and secreted itself on a brick joint hoping to escape detection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths20\/tebenna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths20\/tebennab.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This caused an examination of the foliage, and sure enough&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths20\/leaf.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further examination revealed the culprit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths20\/teblar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths20\/teblarb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moth and larva images will enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aka the Small Thistle Moth, (Choreutinae) the larvae of which have a liking for the foliage of the garden Xerochrysums. This year a plant germinated from a stray seed that had fallen beside the house wall, and it is now in flower. While admiring it, a small movement caught the eye, and betrayed the tiny &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2020\/11\/14\/tebenna-micalis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tebenna micalis.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}