The thread of learning something new every day
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I learned that there is something called a Kumara Moth (aka the Convolvulus hawk moth) which is a big old moth with a big old proboscis (similar species overseas are called a Hummingbird moth) one was having a good old feed of nectar from some flowers we have at home last night...never seen one before.
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@taniwharugby size wise how do they compare with a puriri moth?
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@dogmeat don't think it isn't quite as big as the Puriri Moth, but still decent sized.
One I saw was almost 2 inch body with the similar sized proboscis
I did record it on my phone (photos under the light didnt really show much)
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the first time one of these flew on to my patio i shit myself
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@mariner4life said in The thread of learning something new every day:
the first time one of these flew on to my patio i shit myself
Jeez!! nearly a foot wide wing span!!!
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@dogmeat here it is
When we were building several years back, the rental property we were in was in the middle of about 7acres of native forest, and we used to get Puriri moths all the time, attracted to the light from the big A-frame windows, and we could sit there and see the Moreporks swoop in and take them...poor buggars, upto 5 years in pupae stage, with a life of about 48 hours as a moth!
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@MajorRage Peter Stringer was the king of the flap, pretty much started it!!
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@Toddy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Conrad Smith the forgotten man already.
Keiran Read used to be a massive cringy flapper
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learned that there is something called a Kumara Moth (aka the Convolvulus hawk moth) which is a big old moth with a big old proboscis (similar species overseas are called a Hummingbird moth) one was having a good old feed of nectar from some flowers we have at home last night...never seen one before.
Absolutely Triggered. Hate moths, hate giant moths even more! Especially when you are asleep in the night an hear something tapping around the room in the dark, only ever seen one about an inch big but even that's big enough for me. Horrible horrible things.
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@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Today I learned there is a fuckload to Google Cloud Platform. This is the benefit/burden of working from home during COVID-19 and spending hours trying to find ways to do shit I'd have otherwise knocked off in minutes on SQL Server.
/nerdchat
Massive citrix farm here is coping (barely). At one point yesterday scrolling emails was like loading gifs over dial up
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@antipodean said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Today I learned there is a fuckload to Google Cloud Platform. This is the benefit/burden of working from home during COVID-19 and spending hours trying to find ways to do shit I'd have otherwise knocked off in minutes on SQL Server.
/nerdchat
Massive citrix farm here is coping (barely). At one point yesterday scrolling emails was like loading gifs over dial up
internet.One of our farms shit the bed earlier today, taking down some of the remote access stuff with it. Inconvenient for me but showstopper for others.
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