{"id":2673,"date":"2020-09-09T05:43:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T05:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2020-09-13T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T01:27:10","slug":"spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2020\/09\/09\/spring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s here, and finally we’ve had a warm day and mild night, time to shine a light on proceedings. One of the first visitors was a moth seen occasionally, Aglaopus pyrrhata, one of the Picture-winged Leaf Moths, family Thyrididae.<\/p>\n

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A look beneath the wings.<\/p>\n

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Crypsiphona ocultaria is a very common grey Geometrid, aka the Red-lined Geometrid. One may wonder why until the lower wing surface is seen.<\/p>\n

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Just on three months ago a rarity, Syneora hemeropa was recorded<\/a>, and surprisingly another female turned up on this night, adding to the flight data of the species.<\/p>\n

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Geometrids were the main visitors to the light, four Cleora MOV sp. (2) came in showing the variation that is typical of this species.<\/p>\n

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A dark Dysbatus MOV sp. (1)<\/p>\n

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And even darker, the Black Geometrid, Melanodes anthracitaria.<\/p>\n

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And finally, a regular, Ectropis excursaria.<\/p>\n

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

It’s here, and finally we’ve had a warm day and mild night, time to shine a light on proceedings. One of the first visitors was a moth seen occasionally, Aglaopus pyrrhata, one of the Picture-winged Leaf Moths, family Thyrididae. A look beneath the wings. Crypsiphona ocultaria is a very common grey Geometrid, aka the Red-lined … Continue reading Spring.<\/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-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}