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@joncounts@mastodon.nz · 2 days ago

Each season I do four nights of moth lighting in my garden in suburban Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. My summer moth lighting this year started on Saturday. I photograph every moth that settles at my light and today I've been uploading my photos to #iNaturalist.

I've been doing this consistently each autumn since 2015 and every season each year since (at least) 2021. You might think I would have found all the moth species that visit my garden, but no.

So far I've finished uploading Saturday's moth photos and have found six new species to our garden. Here are four of them.

There's the endemic moth *Gymnobathra hamatella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337290749

There's the "nationally vulnerable" endemic species *Gadira leucophthalma*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337263605

There's the endemic Clematis triangle *Deana hybreasalis*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285888

Also, less ideal, there's the introduced Case-bearing Clothes Moth *Tinea pellionella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285916

#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #insects #EcologicalMonitoring

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A photo of the NZ endemic moth Gymnobathra hamatella. It's triangular and light brown with elegant darker brown and pale brown patterns on its wings.

A photo of the NZ endemic moth Gadira leucophthalma. It's a long thin pale brown moth with some dark diagonal stripes.

A photo of the NZ endemic Clematis triangle moth Deana hybreasalis. It's a triangular shape and yellow with a couple of silver-white blotches on each wing. It's got a long snout at the front of its head.

A photo of a small pale brown moth with an orange tufted head. There's a small brown spot on each wing. This is what I've identified as the Case-bearing Clothes Moth Tinea pellionella.

https://mastodon.nz/tags/%C5%8Ctautahi

@joncounts@mastodon.nz · 2 days ago

Each season I do four nights of moth lighting in my garden in suburban Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. My summer moth lighting this year started on Saturday. I photograph every moth that settles at my light and today I've been uploading my photos to #iNaturalist.

I've been doing this consistently each autumn since 2015 and every season each year since (at least) 2021. You might think I would have found all the moth species that visit my garden, but no.

So far I've finished uploading Saturday's moth photos and have found six new species to our garden. Here are four of them.

There's the endemic moth *Gymnobathra hamatella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337290749

There's the "nationally vulnerable" endemic species *Gadira leucophthalma*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337263605

There's the endemic Clematis triangle *Deana hybreasalis*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285888

Also, less ideal, there's the introduced Case-bearing Clothes Moth *Tinea pellionella*:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337285916

#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #insects #EcologicalMonitoring

4 media

A photo of the NZ endemic moth Gymnobathra hamatella. It's triangular and light brown with elegant darker brown and pale brown patterns on its wings.

A photo of the NZ endemic moth Gadira leucophthalma. It's a long thin pale brown moth with some dark diagonal stripes.

A photo of the NZ endemic Clematis triangle moth Deana hybreasalis. It's a triangular shape and yellow with a couple of silver-white blotches on each wing. It's got a long snout at the front of its head.

A photo of a small pale brown moth with an orange tufted head. There's a small brown spot on each wing. This is what I've identified as the Case-bearing Clothes Moth Tinea pellionella.

https://mastodon.nz/tags/%C5%8Ctautahi

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