2018 February 18

 

   Nathan Fisk writes from Fort Rodd Hill Nursery:  I found these two had just emerged and were fluffing out their wings on the Chocolate Lilies.

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  A remarkable find!  The first one is the geometrid Hydriomena nubilofasciata.  We can’t be 100 percent sure about the second.  At first glance it looks more like a noctuid than a geometrid.  However, with two moths emerging at exactly the same time so very close to each other makes it likely that they are the same species, and Libby Avis points out that the markings on the thorax and the legs are virtually identical on the two moths.  Thus we think it is likely that the second moth is also Hydriomena nubilofsciata.

 

Hydriomena nubilofasciata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Nathan Fisk

 

Freshly-emerged moth, probably also Hydriomena nubilofasciata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Nathan Fisk