Thursday 6 April 2017

The Moths are back!

I didn’t blog much at all last year but aim to be more active in 2017.  With that in mind and given the warmer weather, I decided to put my backyard light trap out last night.  I wasn’t disappointed as there were 4 moths of 4 species in the trap this morning and one of these appears to be a Goat Sallow Moth (Homoglaea hircina) which is a new backyard species.  Assuming that my ID is correct, that’s not a bad start to the mothing year!

Here’s the list and a few photographs taken this morning.

Speckled Green Fruitworm (Orthosia hibisci)
Western Swordgrass Moth (Xylena thoracica)
Dot-and-Dash Swordgrass (Xylena curvimacula)
Goat Sallow Moth (Homoglaea hircina)

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