{"id":3835,"date":"2025-09-30T04:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:01:30","slug":"spring-2025-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2025\/09\/30\/spring-2025-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2025 #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect night, calm and mild, but moths and other insect life were very quiet, however there was plenty of interest in the garden moths that did arrive. Most images will enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Entometer fervens, female.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/ento2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/ento1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/ento1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/ant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/antb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pholodes sinistraria, male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/phol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/pholb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aglaopus pyrrhata.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/001bl.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pinara divisa complex, female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/pin1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/pin1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Females rarely come to the light, and males almost never do, probably being day fliers, but occasionally fortune smiles, and in 2012 a male decided to check out the light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/pin2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/pin2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pleasingly another Syneora hemeropa female came in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/hemer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/hemerb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nacoleia rhoeoalis, the larvae recycle leaf litter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/cram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/cramb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"537\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Bogong moth, Agrotis infusa, good to see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/bog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/bogb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"725\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a nicely marked Anestia ombrophanes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/spring25b\/anestia.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect night, calm and mild, but moths and other insect life were very quiet, however there was plenty of interest in the garden moths that did arrive. Most images will enlarge. Entometer fervens, female. Pholodes sinistraria, male. Aglaopus pyrrhata. Pinara divisa complex, female. Females rarely come to the light, and males almost never do, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2025\/09\/30\/spring-2025-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring 2025 #4<\/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-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","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=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}