After four days with the temperature in the forties it’s dropped to 25 outside at 8.30 PM, and it almost feels cold! Even drought resistant native plants are feeling the strain, the eucs are shedding leaves by the barrow load and leaves on shrubs are shrivelling. There’s been no rain for over a month, well, only half a mill. so everything is doing it tough. I haven’t gone far from home, not much point in extreme weather like this, so the photos for this post are of a few moths that have come to the light recently. I must admit that I haven’t spent much time mothing either, insects of all kinds have swarmed to the light, and it’s been very hard to keep them on the right side of the screen door as I go in and out. We’ve got the official wader count coming up next weekend, hopefully the weather will be bearable and we’ll see some birds that I can ramble on about. The first moth is Pantydia diemeni, the rest are yet to be identified, mothing-aus to the rescue probably! I’ve just added two sites to the Australian general nature links, Moths of Great Western, and Moths in Canberra, be sure to check them out.
5 Responses to “Brrrr….”
Hi Duncan,
Lots of Victorians have been quiet in the last few days – for heat, or power outages, probably.
Enjoy the cool break. Forecasts are still not great, it seems.
Keep out of the heat, if you can.
Nice moths, by the way.
Good work to give JL and Donald’s galleries a plug, there.
Denis
Glad you survived the heat. Here’s wishing for some cooler temps and even some rain for you!
Denis and Mick, cool here today with some unexpected drizzle. Big help with the deliberately lit fires that have ravaged part of Gippsland.
Hi Duncan.
I just stambled upon your blog site. Just amazing photos of your local insects. Definetely included it in my bookmark and I will pass by frequently to see what’s happening.
You could be living in the opposite situation. I am locating in Canada and it’s -19 C (-27 if you’re facing the wind)
Jayson.
Thanks for visiting Jayson. We’re anticipating wind tomorrow, strong Nor-westerly with temperatures in the low forties Celsius, certainly a contrast.