Whilst watering my 1 year old maiden apple trees in the fruit forest nursery I came across this little beauty. I couldn’t believe how long his antenae are! He is a male yellow barred longhorn, a diurnal moth who apparently is most commonly found on forest and woodland floors – so nice that he recognises my fruit forest in an sub-urban back garden as a forest!
Amazingly, this morning, I stood in the midst of about a dozen yellow barred longhorns doing a crazy flying dance around me! The sun glinting on their antennae was so weird and they had an up and down motion as the flew. One or two landed and I was able to get a few more photos. They looked to be all males, apparently the females have shorter antennae which look thicker due to small branches on them. I must read up more about them.