Bugs defy the winter

Trips to Pamiang, Everest and Wang Chin. Now the rains have stopped there are not supposed to be so many insects around but this year the bugs have defied the predictions by turning out en masse (see the picture of the sheet at Punjen, Wang Chin, at around midnight. I counted 82 hawk moths on the sheet and as many more in the surrounding bushes.

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Bombycidae Gunda ochracea

Cicindelidae Calochroa flavomaculata

Coenagrionidae Argiocnemis rubescens rubeola female

Drepanidae Teldenia specca

Dynastinae Xylotrupes gideon

mantid lying in wait...

...for a butterfly

Amphithemis curvistyla

Phyllothemis eltoni

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Lasiocampidae Alompra roepke

Lasiocampidae Trabala vishno or ganesha

Lycaenidae Arhopola sp. with ants

Lycaenidae Spindasis vulcanus

Macrochenus isabellinus

Noctuidae Agaristinae Sarbanissa transiens

Notodontidae Paracerura priapus IMG_8767

Nymphalidae Kallima inachus 1

Nymphalidae Kallima inachus

Pieridae Delias pasithoe

Pyralidae Sacada sp.

Scutelleridae

Trachyzulpha fruhstorferi Marble long-horned grasshopper

moths attracted to the lights at the Punjen Hideaway

Attacus atlas larva