Comments on: Down Under Crambid https://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2016/12/12/down-under-crambid/ Topical information from the Suffolk Moth Group Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Raymond Watson https://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2016/12/12/down-under-crambid/#comment-2470 Raymond Watson Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:33:32 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6662#comment-2470 I visited that site once and couldn’t cope with the text colour. Not sure what my eyed moth was. There is a site that shows moths of the Adelaide area where we lived but it didn’t resemble any of those as I remember it.

]]> By: tonyhopkins https://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2016/12/12/down-under-crambid/#comment-2469 tonyhopkins Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:56:56 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6662#comment-2469 Thanks Raymond.
Not sure if I can face Facebook (I’ve never joined it, or Twitter etc). However, last weekend I spent some time trying out Australian websites and found one (called leapfrogoz!) which was quite useful. The moth I featured in my blog certainly seems to be T tolumnialis, and I’ve also nailed a few others.

The Australian Painted lady is still as common as you remember. Slightly darker than ours and with blue spots on the hindwing. I suppose your ‘eye-spotted’ moth was a silkmoth, but I did see one biggish brown moth with eyes, which they call the Granny moth (or Australian Old Lady)!

Tony.

]]> By: Raymond Watson https://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2016/12/12/down-under-crambid/#comment-2468 Raymond Watson Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:26:04 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6662#comment-2468 Tony,
there is a public Facebook page called ‘Moths and Moth-watching’. If you post images of moths from anywhere in the world there with an ID request you will most probably get an identification. I lived in Australia as a child. The most spectacular recollections of Lepidoptera for me at that young age was the masses of Southern Painted Lady butterfies plus a huge ‘Eye-spotted’ moth that turned up indoors. We lived in the Adelaide region. There are actually web sites that show Australian moths. Looking at the CSIRO Australian Moths Online web site this moth you have photoed looks like Talanga tolumnialis.

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