Side view of a brown weevil with a long snout. At the back, you can see a tiny Pseudoscorpion hanging into the weevil’s leg
Here’s the Cycad Weevil (Tranes vigorsii) that the Pseudoscorpion hitched a lift with… you can just see it hanging onto the weevil’s back left leg.
The weevil seemed pretty unconcerned by his passenger.
#ausinverts #wildoz #weevils #arachnids #inaturalist
Top view of a tiny invert with 8 legs and pincer-like pedipalps that resemble those of scorpions
Side view of a tiny invert with 8 legs and pincer-like pedipalps that resemble those of scorpions
Unexpected visitor at our moth light in the Perth Hills last night… a Pseudoscorpion (possibly Chernetini sp.)
This guy was small, only ~4mm long, and was hitching a lift on the back leg of a Cycad Weevil, a behaviour known as phoresis
#inverts #ausinverts #wildoz #arachnids #inaturalist #bugsky
Top view of a moth with wings that are generally an emerald green and which have a pattern of brown and white markings around the wing border
Eucyclodes buprestaria - Bordered Emerald
An Australian Emerald moth found across the southern half of Australia.
The caterpillars of this species are known to feed on the delightfully named Slender Snotty-Gobble (Cassytha glabella)
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a moth with satin white wings that have thick reddish orange lines down and across them
The change of the season was marked this morning by the arrival of the first Angled Satin Moth (Thalaina angulosa) of the year.
We see these stunning moths in the Perth Hills between April and June.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Just over a year on from the bushfire that burnt through 5,300ha of bushland north of Perth, regeneration of the area is continuing. Autumn flowers are starting to bloom and butterflies are visiting 🦋
#ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #butterflies #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a moth whose wings have a a bold black and creamy white pattern across them
The autumn nights are definitely getting cooler in the Perth Hills… down to a rather chilly 11°C last night 🍂
Still a few brave moths about though, including this rather lovely Scoparia exhibitalis.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Picture of a beetle which is generally blueish in colour and which has largish mandibles
Top view of a beetle which is generally blueish purple in colour and which has largish mandibles
Carenum sp. (possibly Carenum occidentale)
A beautifully coloured predatory ground beetle which is endemic to arid regions of Western Australia. This guy was hanging out under our moth trap last night 🪲
#ausinverts #wildoz #Coleoptera #Carabidae #beetle #inaturalist
Side view of a large moth hanging from a dry stem. The moth is green with brown markings on the sage and across the middle of the forewings. She has long green scales resembling hair at the back of the head
Aenetus djernaesae - Marie’s Splendid Ghost Moth
Spotted this stunning female Ghost Moth (Hepialidae) in a coastal area around 150km north of Perth last night. This species appears to be endemic to Western Australia.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Sunrise over a coastal dune showing a peachy pink sky over gently rolling green covered sand dunes with low lying smoke from a bushfire visible
Grammodes ocellata, the Large-eyed Box-owlet
Armactica conchidia
Armactica conchidia
Currently in an area characterised by coastal dune systems and we’re seeing a good diversity of moths including:
Grammodes ocellata - the Large-eyed Box-owlet
Armactica conchidia - both female (bottom left) and male (bottom right)
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Eucyclodes buprestaria - emerald green moth on a beige stone wall
Large plume of smoke and clouds over a controlled bushfire
Just had the biggest number of moths visit our moth trap that we’ve ever seen. There must have been 400+ moths along with several new species.
There was a large bushfire near us yesterday, not sure if that contributed to the bumper numbers 🤔
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Side view of two moths, one much larger than the other. The larger moth has white wings with a pattern of black and red patches across them. It is facing a much smaller moth that is brown in colour. Zooming in shows that the much smaller moth has several patches of raised scales making it look quite spikey.
It's always nice to bump into a friend
This beautifully coloured Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) was sitting face to face with a very tiny and rather spikey looking Leptozestis sp. moth at our moth light recently.
#teammoth #mothfacefriday #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a large moth whose wings are a bright lemon yellow with a variable black serrated line near the bottom and with each forewing having two black spots.
Anthela inornata
We are seeing quite a few of these lovely moths at the minute.
They are quite large, with a wingspan of 6-7cm, and can be seen in early autumn in Western Australia and South Australia
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a moth with ochre brown forewings that bold white stripes down the. The stripe in the middle is forked towards the base of the wings
The wild weather over the weekend has certainly mixed things up with an influx of different moths into our Perth Hills garden.
This lovely moth is Hednota tenuilineata, a species endemic to Western Australia and a new observation for us.
#teammorh #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a moth that has brownish-grey patchy wings. The forewings have been concertinaed to make them very thin as have the hindwings.
Phazaca interrupta - the Plain Roll-moth
A new moth for our Perth Hills garden last night and definitely one of the more unusual ones we’ve seen.
This moth concertinas its wings while at rest, giving it this unusual resting posture.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Sunrise over a tree filled valley with a pinkish peach sunrise showing beneath patchy clouds with a thin layer of mist at the bottom of the valley
Anthela inornata - top view if a large bright yellow moth with a zig zag line across its wings and two darker spots
Pseudanapaea denotata - side view of an orangey pink moth that has long scales at the back of the head and several darker spots in the forewings
Moerarchis clathrata - side view of a moth with a black and orange head, wings that are pearly white with thick black lines randomly across them, and a wing tips that are feathered orange and black
A beautiful sunrise and some spectacular moths… what better way to start a Monday!
Happy #MothMonday!
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
(IDs in ALT)
Zomariana doxasticana - small brown moth with four dark markings that partially track the outline of a circle
A Dasygaster sp. - relatively large moth with brown wings that gave a pattern of darker wavy lines
Stegasta variana - new record for our garden- micro moth with forewings that are cream and brown
Oenochroma vinaria - Pink Bellied moth - large moth with reddish brown wings that have a pale yellow line running horizontally and a dark edged white spot on each wing. Wings are slightly blurred as the moth didn’t fully settle
Still very rainy in the Perth Hills but at least 12 species of moth visited our Perth Hills garden last night (along with hordes of flying ants!), including these:
Zomariana doxasticana
Dasygaster sp.
Stegasta variana (NFG)
Oenochroma vinaria
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Side view of a small moth with light brown forewings that gave a pattern of darker and lighter patches
We’ve had a very wet 24hrs (with 62mm in our rain gauge so far) ☔️
Despite the weather one brave moth visited our Perth Hills garden last night, a Eucalyptus Leafroller (I think).
Maybe not the prettiest of moths but certainly the bravest.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a moth with pearly white forewings with striking ochreous brown stripes across them
Myrascia empheres
This lovely moth was a new observation for our Perth Hills garden this March.
There are only 6 recorded observations of this species currently on #inaturalist, which appears to be a species endemic to Western Australia.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #nature
Picture of a large spider with a dull grey body and long legs hanging in a web with a blue sky behind her
Trichonephila edulis - the Australian Golden Orbweaver
Came across this beautiful Golden Orbweaver on a bushwalk recently. Her leg span was around 11-12cm; luckily, she'd made her web high above the path!
#ausinverts #wildoz #arachnids #orbweaver #inaturalist
Top view of a moth whose forewings are a rich brown colour, with several wavy transverse white lines edged with multiple black chevrons. Each forewing has two black dots ringed with red in the central area as well as small red flecks and dots across the wings.
Proteuxoa sanguinipuncta - Blood-spotted Noctuid
Our first Blood-spotted Noctuid for this year, seen in our Perth Hills garden in mid-March. The striking red pattern on the forewings makes these moths easily recognisable.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Common Gum Emerald - Prasinocyma semicrocea - top view of a striking green moth with pinkish edges
Striped Hawkmoth - Hyles livornicoides - top view of a moth with brown and cream/grey patterned wings
Heliotrope Moth - Utetheisa pulchelloides - top view of a moth with white wings covered in black and red squares
Proteuxoa sp. ANIC9 - top view of a currently undescribed moth that has cream and brown wings with pattern of circles and zigzags
As we head towards autumn in Australia, there’s been a definite increase in moth diversity that we’re seeing in our Perth Hills garden. A selection from last night:
Common Gum Emerald
Striped Hawkmoth
Heliotrope Moth
Proteuxoa sp. ANIC9
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Side view of a tiny moth (~5mm in length) with a striking wing pattern of reddish/orange and cream patches with a black spot and feathering at the end of the wing.
We had a few new micro moths in our Perth Hills garden this week, including this beauty.
I think this is Macarostola ida, a leaf miner of plants in the Myrtle family (Myrtaceae).
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist #nature
Phallaria ophiusaria - a large moth with pale brown wings which have a small, comma shaped spot on each forewing and pale edged darker brown stripe across each forewing and hindwing
Picture of a sunrise across hills covered in trees. There are grey clouds in the sky but a strip of orange and peach colours an be seen on the horizon
A lovely sunrise peeking beneath the clouds and a new moth visitor to our Perth Hills garden (Phallaria ophiusaria - the Large Leaf Moth) this morning.
Good way to start a Friday I reckon!
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist #nature #sunrise
Eochrois epidesma - top view of a moth with yellow wings and two brown stripes linked by a brown diagonal stripe
Aproaerema sp. - view of a dark brown moth with yellow patches at the ends of the wings
Hypsopygia albidalis - top view of a moth that is pale golden brown
Notodryas sp. (undescribed) - side view of a small moth with brown and orange patches on its wings
Our weather has turned warm again this week, but it was a quiet night at the moth light. A few of last night’s visitors:
Eochrois epidesma
Aproaerema sp. (I think)
Hypsopygia albidalis
Notodryas sp. (undescribed)
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist #nature
Zonopetala clerota - top view of a moth with white wings that have two, broad black stripes across them
Thallarcha eremicola - top view of a moth with white wings covered in a complex pattern of black dots and lines
Notodryas sp., possibly Notodryas vallata - side view of a very small moth with white wings that have a blackish brown stripe near the head and in the middle. The end of the wings are blackish brown
Tracholena sulfurosa - top view of a moth with whitish yellow wings that are brown at the ends
A monochrome colour theme to the moths in our Perth Hills garden recently 🖤🤍
IDs for these moths are (I think):
Zonopetala clerota
Thallarcha eremicola
Notodryas sp.
Tracholena sulfurosa
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist #nature
Cats kill our <5kg mammals & birds, this is 150 y old brick I discovered 700 mm deep under steps, 1871 house Bendigo.
#auswildlife / #australianwildlife
#ausbirds / #australianbirds
#ausreptiles / #australianreptiles
#ausmammals / #australianmammals
#ausinverts / #australianinvertebrates
A little Rhinoceros Beetle (Dasygnathus trituberculatus) protesting being in the spotlight! This species makes strange squelching, scraping sounds when it feels threatened. Recorded in to Lamington National Park, Queensland.
#wildoz #ausinverts #inverts
Here's a chance to get involved in some important #citizenscience.
If you spot any tagged Bogong moths over the next few weeks or months, report them to the Bogong Watch website (www.bogong.org) or record them on iNaturalist.
#mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #communityscience
Side view of a small lacewing standing on a pale surface. The lacewing has long antennae stretched out in front and wings that are a brownish grey with a delicate pattern across them
Such a beautiful, delicate lacewing, seen in early February in the Perth Hills. I think is one of the Beaded Lacewings (Family Berothidae) but I'm not sure of the species.
#ausinverts #wildoz #Neuroptera #lacewing #inaturalist #nature
