{"id":4006,"date":"2026-05-16T06:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:25:41","slug":"autumn-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2026\/05\/16\/autumn-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

This session was at the local Bellbird Corner Riverside Reserve, where the surrounding vegetation includes Gippsland Red Gum, Silver Wattle, Tree Violet, and Melaleuca ericifolia. Moths were disappointingly sparse, reflecting the current state of invertebrate populations world wide, and some were reluctant to settle on the sheet, however, enough were snapped for this post. Thalaina clara refused to settle but one was found hiding in the grass, at least showing the wing under side.
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Plesanemma fucata was more obliging.<\/p>\n

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A nice male emerald, (Prasinocyma) semicrocea<\/p>\n

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Female Ectropis fractaria.<\/p>\n

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A nicely patterned small moth, Sandava scitisignata<\/p>\n

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And smaller still, 6mm nose to tail, Nola pleurosema<\/p>\n

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And at the other end of the scale, the Batwing Moth, Chelepteryx collesi, male.<\/p>\n

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This session was at the local Bellbird Corner Riverside Reserve, where the surrounding vegetation includes Gippsland Red Gum, Silver Wattle, Tree Violet, and Melaleuca ericifolia. Moths were disappointingly sparse, reflecting the current state of invertebrate populations world wide, and some were reluctant to settle on the sheet, however, enough were snapped for this post. Thalaina … Continue reading Autumn #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-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","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=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}