{"id":3647,"date":"2024-03-05T02:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2024-03-05T02:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:05:03","slug":"summers-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2024\/03\/05\/summers-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer&#8217;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the nights drawing in it was time after a long pause to fire up the moth light. Moths were quite sparse, mirroring the last season&#8217;s records of invertebrates generally, although black field crickets were in large numbers and made themselves a nuisance swarming to the light. Of most interest was an undescribed Cryptophasa species, the second record from the garden, previously recorded in February 2010.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden2\/dors.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden2\/cryp.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most numerous species was the first of the Hepialids to show up, Elhamma australasiae.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden2\/elhamma.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Asura cervicalis is a little unusual, A. lydia is more commonly to the light.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden2\/asura.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"725\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Always nice to see an emerald, Chlorocoma melocrossa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden2\/chloro.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Circopetes obtusata is a regular from the garden, a female.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden2\/circ.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A small Crambid, Hednota pleniferellis, the larvae feed on grass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden2\/hed.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few other species common for this time of the year came in, but numbers expected for the night were way down, a worrying trend that is being experienced world-wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the nights drawing in it was time after a long pause to fire up the moth light. Moths were quite sparse, mirroring the last season&#8217;s records of invertebrates generally, although black field crickets were in large numbers and made themselves a nuisance swarming to the light. Of most interest was an undescribed Cryptophasa species, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2024\/03\/05\/summers-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer&#8217;s End<\/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-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","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=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}