{"id":1273,"date":"2018-03-31T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T07:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2018-03-31T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T07:24:27","slug":"garden-moths-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2018\/03\/31\/garden-moths-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Moths, March."},"content":{"rendered":"

A cool night with close to a full moon and a light breeze was not ideal, but a couple of hours saw a reasonable selection come in to the light. The first was one of several Crypsiphona ocultaria, the Red-lined Geometrid, a common but very neat species. (Geometrinae.)<\/p>\n

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Another early arrival to the sheet situated near a big grevillea, was the Hakea Wine Moth, Oenochroma vinaria. (Oenochrominae) As the name suggests, the larvae of this moth graze on plants in the Proteaceae.<\/p>\n

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Also in the Geometrinae is Diffundens Grey, Hypobapta diffundens.<\/p>\n

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The biggest surprise for this session in the garden was a female Lucas’ Stub-moth, Discophlebia lucasii,. (Oenosandridae) It preferred to land on a rusty weight stabilising the rig against the breeze, where it was well camouflaged.<\/p>\n

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Doratifera oxleyi, (Limacodidae) is known as the Painted Cup-moth for the brightly coloured larvae. This is a fat-bodied female.<\/p>\n

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A few Noctuids arrived, among them quite a number of Proteuxoa tortisigna. (Amphipyrinae)<\/p>\n

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The small Crambid Nacoleoi rhoeoalis, (Spilomelinae) is notable for its flamboyant antennae.<\/p>\n

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Among the smaller moths to come in were these two Tortricids, Epitymbia scotinopa, and an unidentified species.<\/p>\n

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A small Oecophorid to conclude, Palimmeces poecilella.<\/p>\n

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Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A cool night with close to a full moon and a light breeze was not ideal, but a couple of hours saw a reasonable selection come in to the light. The first was one of several Crypsiphona ocultaria, the Red-lined Geometrid, a common but very neat species. (Geometrinae.) Another early arrival to the sheet situated … Continue reading Garden Moths, March.<\/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":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths","category-locations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}