Do you hear them before you see them? It looks like it would make a buzzing sound with those wings. We get some large moths here too, and I always hear them first. Congrats on the great photo.
Interesting. Day fliers, aye? I must get Hubby to drag up a photo from his computer where I know he has some moth photos ( because I drew his attention to a large one one day).
Not the rain forests in Tassie, Tetley, but have driven around the island. We used to be active in the 'Australian Garden History Society' some years ago, and one year they had their annual conference there. We had 10 days visiting old private gardens and generally sight seeing. (Just remembered it was 1993). How time flies!
The cicadas are so noisy in summer. You're lucky to be able to sleep.
We have what we call Christmas beetles in summer as well and they seem to spend most of their nights trying to break their heads against any outside lights or gaps in curtains. They also buzz like mad.
Tetley. It sounds as though you've sampled the best we've got to offer here! Red backs under the toilet seat you get used to keeping an eye out for. Second nature from a young age.
A story by a friend who used to be a teachers aide, and they took the kids for a bit of a bush walk and were given strict instructions to stay close to the fence and wait at the corner post, or else! They were alerted by screams coming from the post and found a huge bull ant nest there, but the kids were too scared to move away! Oh dear!
Hubby got bitten by an Eastern Brown snake several years ago and was lucky to survive it. We just have to be alert and aware.
heres a photo of the moth I mentioned earlier. You can tell by the size of the hose how big it was.
I saw my frst ever hummingbird hawk moths last week at Ventnor Botanical Garden. Amazing things that really did look like hummingbirds. Couldn't get a very good picture - they're fast!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
That's a super picture LG and his/her taget is another salvia isn't it?
My picture is a cheat really, a still from a movie. My daughter noticed it first so she kept an eye on it while I ran indoors to get the camera. They certainly do move fast, it was difficult to follow and keep it in view. I couldn't hear anything (I'm a bit mutt 'n' jeff too) but apparently they do make a faint hum.
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Do you hear them before you see them? It looks like it would make a buzzing sound with those wings. We get some large moths here too, and I always hear them first. Congrats on the great photo.
Interesting. Day fliers, aye? I must get Hubby to drag up a photo from his computer where I know he has some moth photos ( because I drew his attention to a large one one day).
Not the rain forests in Tassie, Tetley, but have driven around the island. We used to be active in the 'Australian Garden History Society' some years ago, and one year they had their annual conference there. We had 10 days visiting old private gardens and generally sight seeing. (Just remembered it was 1993). How time flies!
The cicadas are so noisy in summer. You're lucky to be able to sleep.
We have what we call Christmas beetles in summer as well and they seem to spend most of their nights trying to break their heads against any outside lights or gaps in curtains. They also buzz like mad.
A little black cicada. They get more variety in colour and size on the coast than we do here in the mountains.
Tetley. It sounds as though you've sampled the best we've got to offer here! Red backs under the toilet seat you get used to keeping an eye out for. Second nature from a young age.
A story by a friend who used to be a teachers aide, and they took the kids for a bit of a bush walk and were given strict instructions to stay close to the fence and wait at the corner post, or else! They were alerted by screams coming from the post and found a huge bull ant nest there, but the kids were too scared to move away! Oh dear!
Hubby got bitten by an Eastern Brown snake several years ago and was lucky to survive it. We just have to be alert and aware.
heres a photo of the moth I mentioned earlier. You can tell by the size of the hose how big it was.
I saw my frst ever hummingbird hawk moths last week at Ventnor Botanical Garden. Amazing things that really did look like hummingbirds. Couldn't get a very good picture - they're fast!
That's a super picture LG and his/her taget is another salvia isn't it?
My picture is a cheat really, a still from a movie. My daughter noticed it first so she kept an eye on it while I ran indoors to get the camera. They certainly do move fast, it was difficult to follow and keep it in view. I couldn't hear anything (I'm a bit mutt 'n' jeff too) but apparently they do make a faint hum.
Oh wow look at that! I've never been lucky enough to see one I keep looking, well caught!
In the very hot summer of 1976, I had one in my garden,I had never heard of then before and thought it was a humming bird.