{"id":3963,"date":"2026-03-26T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:59:12","slug":"autumn-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2026\/03\/26\/autumn-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn #1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A warm night after weeks of cool damp weather saw large numbers of small beetles, black crickets, and hoards of small winged insects make things difficult at the moth light. Moths were sparse, but there were some interesting arrivals nonetheless. When MoV volume 9 was published there were only two Victorian specimens of Leucania polysticha, from the north of the state near Yackandandah, since then there have been a few more records from Gippsland with nine now in Inat. This was a nicely marked individual in to the light from the garden.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/007p.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"791\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also nicely marked, Pantydia sparsa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/009p.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"767\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Cup Moth, Doratifera oxleyi, female.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/028p.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"717\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And caught flying up the sheet, click following images to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/flight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/flightb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usually it is the males of Anthela acuta that come to the light, this is a female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/fem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/femb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a new garden record, Chrysolarentia lucidulata.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/lucid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/moths27\/lucidb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warm night after weeks of cool damp weather saw large numbers of small beetles, black crickets, and hoards of small winged insects make things difficult at the moth light. Moths were sparse, but there were some interesting arrivals nonetheless. When MoV volume 9 was published there were only two Victorian specimens of Leucania polysticha, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2026\/03\/26\/autumn-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autumn #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-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","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=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}