^^That looks too much like the tomato hornworm here in the US. Kill it!
^^That looks too much like the tomato hornworm here in the US. Kill it!
^ Yes, the caterpillar can be green or brown depending on the species. The identifying feature is the single horn at the rear making it from the Sphingidae family.
get a light outside after dark, should discourage the mozzies and attract the moths.
^ Or even better for Shutree, open the curtains after dark in your living room or bedroom with the lights on and wait for the moths to come to your windows. There are some nice moths in Thailand; much nicer than the ones I've seen in the UK.
I don't know if this is a butterfly or moth but it was huge - the same size as, or bigger than my hand. It was sitting in the road one evening last month at about 8pm. I thought it was dead but it flew away when I got close to it.
Excuse the crap photos, I took them with my phone's camera with no natural light.
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^ Tropical Swallowtail moth, Lyssa zampa.
Thats a nice crop of those clovery type weeds you have Shu, those are bastard things whose seeds spike you.
That's a very kind offer. I asked the orchids and the orchids said "No!"
One of the curiosities, living out here on the edge of nowhere in a time of Covid, is the impossibility of finding a gardener. I could do with a labourer type of person say a couple of mornings each week. Everyone around here grew up in a farming family but no one wants to work outside.
^^ Spirama helicina
There are several species of blues that are common in the garden this time of year. Unfortunately, to distinguish between them, you need to take photos of the underside of the wings that are good enough to show the number and position of the spots that identify them. You really need a macro and a lot of patience to get decent enough pictures.
I have a grass bank so that I can be at eye level with them but it still takes a lot of time to get good shots.
I lost track of the Lime Butterfly caterpillar for a while but wife tracked it down this morning a couple of branches across and having reached fifth instar stage:
Notice the twin horns at the back, which are characteristic of swallow tail butterflies.
Since I had the macro fitted, I had a look at a few blues that were skipping around this morning. I was expecting to see a couple of different species but they all ended up being lesser grass blues Zizina otis - Wikipedia
They really are tiny little things and didn't stop anywhere long enough for me to take pictures easily. I'm getting too old to be crawling around on my hands and knees and I needed to get within a metre to get a reasonable shot and even then the photos are heavily cropped.
^ Easy to be caught out with skippers, but it is a butterfly from the Hesperiidae family, commonly know as skippers. The tips of the antennae are the clue.
It is a common redeye, Manama aria. There is a wiki page but I'm no good with links when using my phone.
I had a giant redeye butterfly in the kitchen last week. I'll dig out the photo later....
^ Apologies to the typo in the latin name, the link to the common red eye wiki page: Matapa aria - Wikipedia
...and the giant red eye Gangara thyrsis - Wikipedia
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