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[Roger C. KENDRICK]

Hi Gary ......

Gary Anweiler wrote:

> The last (?) lone moth of the season sits chilled on my window - one of the
> little late geos or "flimsies" as I call them.  Something bruceata.
>
> Happy hibernating all.

Hmm, I must be in the wrong place! It's getting busy at the moth trap(s) here
[Hong Kong]. Last Friday from 18:00 through to 02:30 gave a rough count of 220
species; the previous Friday, using three traps all night, totalled in excess
of 340 species! I'll save you the download time and just say that in amongst
the menagerie were Attacus atlas, Samia cynthia, Actias heterogyna (all males)
and over 150 species of catocaline & ophiderine noctuids. The only other
observation of note was a real lack of Sphingidae!

regards,

Roger.


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Roger C. KENDRICK
  Demonstrator / Ph.D. Student
  Dept. of Ecology & Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong
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