There were a few different moths in the moth trap this morning. The one on the bottom right of these four that looks like a Eublemma is one that we have seen before at Topes and I still haven't worked out what it is.
Today was really a travel day with stops on our way to Moa. But on the stops we saw some nice things. An obliging Cuban Broken-dash Wallengrenia misera . several Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae larvae including one of a remarkable colour form that even Doug had not seen before.
Nanus Skipperling Oarisma nanus are a tiny butterfly around 7mm long and very slim. They fly very low to the ground so are easy to miss. You will only find them in clearings in natural vegetation with fine grasses growing. I don't have a 100mm macro lens for my Canon camera, I'm going to have to get one because the quality of of my pictures could be so much better a lot of the time. So for close ups i use a small Panasonic Lumix TZ41 which with perseverance and the right conditions can produce some nice results and I was quite pleased with picture below, but I'd still like to see how it compares to a 100mm macro Canon.
Nanus Skipperling Oarisma nanus 08.12.2018 Moa © Tim Norriss
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