2016 September 3, morning

 

   Monthly butterfly walk, Sunday September 4.   All welcome.   Meet at the top of  Mount Tolmie, 1:00 p.m.

 

    Rosemary Jorna writes that the moth below was resting on the duff in her Kemp Lake garden yesterday morning.  It is a Large Yellow Underwing moth, a European species by now well established here.  The shape is quite characteristic.  Although the pattern and colour on the wings is very variable, and this is an extreme pale version, one can usually recognize the species by the double black spot near the apex – a feature that is very obvious in this example.

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Rosemary Jorna