{"id":3872,"date":"2026-02-16T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:42:22","slug":"late-summer-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2026\/02\/16\/late-summer-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Summer #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A session in the garden was interesting, even if it was made difficult by hordes of small beetles and black crickets blundering around disturbing the moths, which were a mixture of regulars and unusual. Pleasing to see in these times of invertebrate scarcity were quite a number of wasps, lacewings or antlion adults, and a longicorn beetle with spectacular antennae.<br \/>\nMost images will enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Proteuxoa sanguinipuncta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/sang2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/sang2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/sang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/sangb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The genus Proteuxoa has many undescribed species, this is MOV Proteuxoa sp. (27)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/prot.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hypobapta diffundens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/hyp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/hypb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circopetes obtusata, female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/circo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/circob.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cryphaea xylina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/cryph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/cryphb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chlorocoma carenaria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/caren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/carenb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anthela acuta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/acut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/garden3\/acutb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A session in the garden was interesting, even if it was made difficult by hordes of small beetles and black crickets blundering around disturbing the moths, which were a mixture of regulars and unusual. Pleasing to see in these times of invertebrate scarcity were quite a number of wasps, lacewings or antlion adults, and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2026\/02\/16\/late-summer-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Late Summer #1<\/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-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","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=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}