With my family, I spent several days between Christmas and New Year at Upper Thane Creek west of Warwick, Qld. There had been good rain in the previous months and the vegetation was growing well. Each day I saw several …

According to the 1996 Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia, there are six species of Cruria in Australia. Two of these, C. synopla and C. donowani, are widespread in eastern Australia. Adult moths of both species …

The family Saturniidae contains some of the most interesting and spectacular moths in the world…

Scratch – scratch – ¬scratch – ¬the sound half wakes me and in a drowsy state I try to figure out the cause. A mouse behind the wainscot? But my cat Thomas cleared my Sydney house of mice ……

The Zodiac Moth… A discovery and study – Maya Harrison, Visitors Services Officer at the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens

Mid-morning April 6 2009, I was fortunate to see a Zodiac Moth (Alcides metaurus) laying eggs on the leaf of a Tree Omphalea (Omphalea celata) in the…

The genus Grammodes Guenée, 1852, belongs to the subfamily Catocalinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Worldwide the Catocalinae include about 10,000 species, a figure approaching half the total number…..

In November 2005 John Moss and Ross Kendall returned from a field trip to the Hendry’s bush block, some 28 km SW of Gin Gin. They were excited by a large collection of various lepidoptera larvae….

My presentation is on attracting insects, birds, lizards and other fauna to the garden, for the southeast Queensland area, with a view towards a few other consequential issues……

During a visit to Burleigh Heads (Queensland) beach in mid-January 2012, I noted several colourful striped moth larvae (Fig.1) on the Goat’s Foot Morning Glory Vine (also called Goat’s Foot Convolvulus): Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis: family Convolvulaceae (Fig. 2). This vine is common ….

Moth flies belong to the fly family Psychodidae. The adults are sometimes also called ‘drain flies’ because they are often found close to sluggish or stagnant water in which their aquatic larvae live ….

The world of very small and unusual moths often goes unnoticed. Their interesting colours, shapes and patterns only become apparent after taking their images using a good macro lens and DSLR camera…..

The world of very small and unusual moths often goes unnoticed. Their interesting colours, shapes and patterns only become apparent after taking their images using a good macro lens and DSLR camera…..

Introduction: Moths of the genus Grammodes are often characterised by two distinct cream or yellow parallel lines on the forewing, which usually has a dark brown background. In the Grammodes “Group A” complex of six species (Hendry, 2011), the lines traverse the wing from the costa to the dorsum …..

The moths of the genus Bastilla are generally a large species and often have a characteristic white or pale coloured band running from the costa to the …

In the Checklist of Lepidoptera of Australia (1996), (herein referred to as the Checklist) the worldwide superfamily Noctuoidea contains nine families..

Last June and July, my wife and I returned to Cape York Peninsula to photograph butterflies and moths at Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) National Park and several other places in the Wet Tropics.

Iron Range is located on the eastern side of Cape York Peninsula, a little more than halfway between Cooktown and Cape York, near the settlement of Lockhart River. It contains the largest area of tropical rainforest..

The world of very small and unusual moths often goes unnoticed. Their interesting colours, shapes and patterns only become apparent after taking their images using a good macro lens and DSLR camera. Knowing where ….

On the Hughes’ property at Mt Cotton, in the Redlands, grows a common menisperm vine with heart-shaped peltate mid-green leaves, Stephania japonica var. discolor or Tape Vine. It twines its way gracefully through the undergrowth and trails across the ground in the …..

The summer of 2001-2002 was an exceptionally good one for the Gardenia Bee Hawk (Cephonodes kingii) around Sydney. They turned up at Belrose…