{"id":617,"date":"2016-11-23T05:12:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T05:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=617"},"modified":"2016-11-23T05:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T05:12:04","slug":"visitors-to-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2016\/11\/23\/visitors-to-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors to the light."},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of insects other than moths come to the moth light, and on some nights they can cover the sheet and make the job quite difficult. The first image was from such a night, a small part of the sheet with a longicorn beetle and many small insects with two Dichromodes obtusata.<\/p>\n

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Assassin bugs of many types come to the light frequently.<\/p>\n

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A similar insect is a damsel bug, also a predator of soft bodied insects.<\/p>\n

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Wasps are common visitors, eg. this ichneumon species.<\/p>\n

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Less common are members of the Odonata, like this Austrolestes leda female.<\/p>\n

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Very common are some of the cockroaches that abound in the bush.<\/p>\n

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Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lots of insects other than moths come to the moth light, and on some nights they can cover the sheet and make the job quite difficult. The first image was from such a night, a small part of the sheet with a longicorn beetle and many small insects with two Dichromodes obtusata. Assassin bugs of … Continue reading Visitors to the light.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}