Jungle Moths on Lost Land of the Volcano

[Lee Hurrell]

Did anyone see the Lost Land of the Volcano last episode?

Fantastic moths from a trap set in the heart of the New Guinea jungle.

Go to 50mins in, there are 2 or 3 bits that come back to the moths.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_3/

Cheers

Lee

[Dave McCormick]

I saw that, could not believe the amount of moths there was. I could tell what a few of them were, one of them I think, the big brown one on his face is Lyssa Zamap (Laos Brown Butterfly), its called that even though its a moth (see my website link about it, here): http://www.davesleps.110mb.com/Website/ ... _zampa.htm He must have known alot about moths or something, I would not have licked that foam coming of that moth.

Did you see (it was not in that episode) but one night a large caterpillar (what I think was a hawk moth caterpillar) fell down onto the tarpauling on the camp and was hanging on it. It tried to pupate, but was covered in small grubs. Usually in the UK and possibly Europe too, the flies/wasps, lay an egg in the caterpillar and it gets eaten from the inside out, not like this one. See here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004b41t