Drawn to light. First of the season.
Drawn to light.
Caterpillar stretched out across a manuka tree branch approx 40mm long. Green lichen camo type markings.
Bit random , single forewing found in a ceiling crawl space. Likely rat food.
I've found a whole dead specimen in a vacant property just 12km from here. Might be a good area to find live specimens in the right season.
Images all one individual. Another individual (female - was laying eggs) was present nearby.
What seems to be in the korscheltellus genus of moths. One of the bigger Lepidoptera I have seen. It was hiding under some tree bark away from predators
Drawn to light.
Numerous adults flying in open beech forest with an understorey dominated by cutty grasses. All the adults looked at least slightly tattered and faded.
Tons flying on a lovely day.
carefully photographed on a rock on the side of one of the infinite sinkholes...
Taking a leap here (for the ID, not into the hole) but mainly based on the gold scales. The alternative seems to be Dasyuris leucobathra which is also a pretty good fit except it seems to have fewer gold scales, and one of the middle white bands is much more more diffused based on the Landcare photos (per this photo: https://inaturalist.nz/photos/6116520)
18A Revel Ave, Mount Roskill, Auckland. At light.
18A Revel Ave, Mount Roskill, Auckland. At light.
18A Revel Ave, Mount Roskill, Auckland. At light.
Only known site in Ashburton District Council.
At 1500m asl with @carey-knox-southern-scales Day flying over alpine wetlands.
This specimen lacks the two dots below large spot,having only the one small dot. Is this a variation?
Great trip mid-January into the head of the Neale Burn catchment above Lake Thompson, Fiordland NP with friends Shaun and Cameron. Barrier skink bustling about on the lower granite walls, Southern Alps Giant Wētā, and a great diversity of moths at night.
1,500 metres ASL. Rocky ridgeline at northern end of the Earl Mountains, Fiordland
The undescribed Canterbury Plains Boulder Copper Butterfly mating pair at Silverstream Reserve. This site is at the East End main gate where they have found quite newly planted host plant (Muehlenbeckia axillaris) a few hundred metres away from the main host plant/butterfly population at East End of Reserve. Hopefully eggs laid.
Most interested in the Pimelea... possibly N. simplex...=)
Another batch (of 20 moths) from a recent night at Falls Dam. More to come from this night.
Lots around. Certainly on or around Pimelea prostrata
Site located by @possums_end. Habitat consists of sheep grazed farmland and dirt by an irrigation / fishing pond between Waipiata and Ranfurly (See second photo of the habitat)
18A Revel Ave, Mount Roskill, Auckland. At light.
18A Revel Ave, Mount Roskill, Auckland. At light.
Magical day! These were quite abundant and widespread in the reserve.
[Great night of spring mothing on the Maniototo. About 45-50 species seen in total. A lot of species that I had not seen since last spring turned up e.g. Meterana exquisita (7!), Orophora unicolor, and Ichneutica paracausta. First Physeticas and porinas for this spring. Also another location recorded for Theoxena scissaria]
[Great night of spring mothing on the Maniototo. About 45-50 species seen in total. A lot of species that I had not seen since last spring turned up e.g. Meterana exquisita (7!), Orophora unicolor, and Ichneutica paracausta. First Physeticas and porinas for this spring. Also another location recorded for Theoxena scissaria]
I love these wee butterflies. Seen in behind the sand duned
Moth Week. Drawn to LepiLed Maxi S. 4 degrees, high cloud, calm.
Collage of 8 Declana species from the South Island of NZ (Central Otago, Otago Peninsula, Catlins, and Fiordland).
Hemiparasitic on tarata
Attracted to light, 40w Actinic (Heath Trap).
18A Revel Ave, Mount Roskill, Auckland 1041. At light.
A native climber colonising a pine plantation understory.
Locally abundant on margins of montane broadleaved forest. In heavy fruit.
18A Revel Ave, Mount Roskill, Auckland 1041. At light.
Manukau Harbour coastline at Onehunga/Penrose, Auckland.
NOTE: GPS coordinates have been corrected from photo metadata.
The last of my Fox Range moths from several weeks ago
The last of my Fox Range moths from several weeks ago
Drawn to light. I think the ID is correct.
Just the second sighting over three summers...
Outer Fields Bush, Western Springs Lakeside Park, Western Springs, Auckland.
Came to light. 1,650 metres, Fox Range
Disturbed in beech forest.
Pair mating.
Classified as 'At Risk-Naturally Uncommon" by DOC https://nztcs.org.nz/assessments/40878
ID by Brian Patrick.
Intercepted in Kanuka. Not sure on ID - possibly Holocola zopherana?
Caught in spider web on hut porch. Several other individuals dead in webs in the same area.
I'd heard of sightings, but first photo confirmation I've seen. Makes sense, heaps of host plants around.
On oak tree