{"id":3708,"date":"2024-10-15T04:40:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T04:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2024-10-15T04:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T04:40:22","slug":"spring-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2024\/10\/15\/spring-2024-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2024 #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A night with too much moon, but enough to the sheet for a post or two, with a couple of interesting observations when compared with spring two years ago. At that time the uncommon Ring-tipped Bark Moth, Syneora hemeropa came to the light and the thought was that there may be a resident garden population. That seems to be the case two years on with another male arriving. Some images will enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/syneora.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/syneorab.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another moth two years ago was the white-patched form of the Pome Looper, Chloroclystis testulata. It also came to the light this season, and it&#8217;s interesting to note that the white patching pattern closely resembles the earlier moth. Here are both, the 2022 one first.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/chloro2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/chloro.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Black Geometrid, Melanodes anthracitaria is a regular,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/melanodes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/melanodesb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As is the neat Epidesmia, Epidesmia tryxaria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/epi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/epib.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two more regulars, the Epyaxa Moth, Epyaxa subidaria,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/epyaxa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/epyaxab.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the Streaked Notodontid, Destolmia lineata.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/home8\/dest.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"867\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A night with too much moon, but enough to the sheet for a post or two, with a couple of interesting observations when compared with spring two years ago. At that time the uncommon Ring-tipped Bark Moth, Syneora hemeropa came to the light and the thought was that there may be a resident garden population. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2024\/10\/15\/spring-2024-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring 2024 #2<\/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-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","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=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}