Autumn #4

This session was at the local Bellbird Corner Riverside Reserve, where the surrounding vegetation includes Gippsland Red Gum, Silver Wattle, Tree Violet, and Melaleuca ericifolia. Moths were disappointingly sparse, reflecting the current state of invertebrate populations world wide, and some were reluctant to settle on the sheet, however, enough were snapped for this post. Thalaina clara refused to settle but one was found hiding in the grass, at least showing the wing under side.
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Plesanemma fucata was more obliging.

A nice male emerald, (Prasinocyma) semicrocea

Female Ectropis fractaria.

A nicely patterned small moth, Sandava scitisignata

And smaller still, 6mm nose to tail, Nola pleurosema

And at the other end of the scale, the Batwing Moth, Chelepteryx collesi, male.

Autumn #3

A slightly warmer night a couple of days later saw  less moths in to the sheet, but at least there were some different species. Two Plesanemma fucata came in illustrating the variation that occurs in the garden population.

Another Geometrid, Scioglyptis canescaria

Two Noctuids, Agrotis radians

And a very strongly marked male Australothis rubrescens

Two Pyralids, Mimaglossa nauplialis

Spectrotota fimbrialis

And a Crambid, Nomophila corticalis