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    Mossman Moths (FNQ, Aus) 2016

    My apologies for the total lack of posts just recently but I have been rather busy so I thought I would start a sole thread for the rest of the year and in future probably just stick to one thread a year... To start this one off thought I would just give a few stats for 2016 and in particular...
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    July 2016 Moths - Mossman, FNQ, Australia

    July is traditionally one of the quietest months here being mid Dry / mid Winter (along with August) but so far the trap has retained its interest with 140+ species in the first week (500+ photos still to work through). Sphingidae Part I Another great start to the month with 12 species so far...
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    Mossman Moths (Aus) - June and July 2016

    Another thread with two months combined and no certainty of many postings....not because there are no moths because there are plenty but unfortunately my Telco "forgot" to process our order and so we are without phone and internet until July other than via my dongle which is not the cheapest way...
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    April and May 2016 - Yorkeys Knob FNQ

    Have decided to merge the next two months together, this will be the last thread from my current location as sometime in May we are moving north to Mossman and so i will have a new garden and will start a completely new thread when I have set up the trap! In addition to these threads I have been...
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    March 2016 - Yorkeys Knob

    Another month so another thread - although I have still got 3500+ un-identified photos from Feb so may well add to my previous thread! The month started with the threat of ex Tropical Cyclone Winston coming ashore and dropping huge quantities of rain on us (forecast 6 inches per hour), it is not...
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    February 2016 - Yorkeys Knob, Australia

    Another month and another thread. I have re-named this as I trap in just a minute corner of this vast country especially as the moth fauna here probably has as much in common as PGN as it does with the rest of the country - as the moth flies Port Morseby (PNG capital) is a mere 829km to my north...
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    Rosenbergia megalocephala

    This stunning beetle came to my moth trap a couple of nights ago. I am told that it is quite a localised and rare species here in Far North Queensland
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    January 2016 - Australia

    Happy New Year fellow mothers - I hope that 2016 is a great year for you. The New Year certainly started off promisingly with increasing activity at the trap as the effects of the rain that we have had start to show. It is the long school summer holidays here so I am falling behind in...
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    Yorkeys 2016

    As the New Year starts I thought I should start a new thread for my rambles around Yorkeys. Not really birding today as family commitments got in the way but I still managed to get my list off to a reasonable start. The year started with a Papuan Frogmouth calling away in the garden closely...
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    December Moths - Australia

    The months started more productively than November as we had a small amount of rain the first couple of days, it has slowed down now and as I write this there is no rain in the forecast for several days so who knows what the rest of the month will be like! Asota heliconia - Aganaidae Asota...
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    Unknown Australia

    I have been catching this moth regularly for the last four months and I am no closer to even confirming family it belongs to. has been posted on several other forums and the farthest we can get is that it is probably Noctuid so does anyone here have any suggestions? I have got better photos...
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    November Moths - Australia

    After a little bit of rain over the weekend the mothing has started to pick up, here are a few of the highlights from the first couple of nights. Synthereta janetta (Saturnid) have had three of these in the lat four days (two red and one yellow form) Ophiusa hituense (Erebidae) both these were...
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    October in Aus

    On returning from my recent work trip I discovered that the moth trap was not working so a few hurried repairs later I am back up and running as the season starts to hot up - both literally and metaphorically! Here are a few from the last two nights which have been moonlit and very windy...
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    September in Aus

    Spring is underway here and the days are warming up (max temp over the last few days has been 30o) but the nights are still cooler (around 18-20o at the moment). The mothing is picking up and at this stage of the season it is looking like my current garden will be pretty good if not quite as...
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    August in Aus

    New month so a new thread. Last night conditions were slightly more favourable - a waning moon, scattered clouds and no wind - so the light went on. By the time I switched the light off around midnight there were approx 50 individuals of probably 25-30 species (takes weeks / months to ID...
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    June and July moths in Aus

    As an ex UK mother I have been really enjoying the monthly threads and so I thought I would start a complimentary thread about mothing DownUnder. I predominantly trap in my back garden (although I am hoping this year to take my generator out and visit a few places on the nearby Tablelands). I...
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    Stunning micro from Australia

    Caught this Gelechioid couple of nights ago but only managed one photo. So far not ID'd but not posting it for an ID rather as it is the most stunning micro I have ever caught - it was barely 3mm in length
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    Australian Saturniidae

    The Saturniidae are some of the largest and most spectacular of Australias moths. In the last six months have had three species in the garden: Hercules Moth - arguably the largest moth in the world (this one was photographed elsewhere but have two zip over my light without settling - very weird...
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    Moths from Cairns

    We are now settling into winter over here with night temperatures dropping below 16oC which has had a huge impact on the moth fauna that is flying around. It has been a reasonable summer in the garden with over 500spp ID'd to at least genus level (probably another 200+ to go from photos)...
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    Yorkeys Knob...The Return!

    After a brief ten month sojourn in Caravonica, a suburb south of Yorkeys, we returned to Yorkeys this month so I though I would restart a thread about my daily(ish) observations in the 'Burbs north of Cairns - although I do not "list" as such. A quick introduction to Yorkeys is in order though...
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    Two from Cairns FNQ, Australia

    I originally posted these in the wrong forum so apologies for the double posting. I caught both these in my suburban garden north of Cairns - I have previously posted them on the FB Moths and Mothing page but have had no potential suggestions so... I think the first moth is a Catocalinae but I...
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    Three from Cairns, FNQ, Australia

    I have posted these on a couple of other sites looking for potential families / IDs but so far have had no joy - I have several hundred more unidentified specimens, the diversity even in my suburban garden is incredible! All were caught in my suburban garden north of Cairns. 1. Large brown moth...
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    Day at the Beach

    Its the school summer holidays over here at the moment so as we were all off for the day decided to spend it at the beach. Family days at the beach tend not to produce too many birds and today was no exception with just five species seen... Aus Figbird, Golden-headed Cisticola, Rainbow Lorikeet...
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    My Yorkeys Knob list

    This is a complimentary thread to Chowchilla's Cairns City list. I live in one of the northern suburbs of Cairns called Yorkeys Knob, which as my wife is a midwife has lead to many crude jokes (the Residents Association has printed T-shirts and stubby coolers with the moto Yorkeys Knob bigger...
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    Unidentified from Northern Territory and Cairns (QLD)

    I was looking through a friends pictures today and have come across these two that I can't identify - all were taken in 2011. The first was taken in January at Centenary Lakes in Cairns and I think it is a cuckoo but not sure. The second is vaguely finch like and was taken somewhere along the...
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