"Down Under" IV Old Lady Moth

Hello there...
Today I thought you might like to see the Old Lady Moth which lives in Southern Australia and New Zealand. It is also called Dasypodia selenophora if you want to look it up in a book. It has beautiful peacock eyes on its wing and the wingspan can be 9cm wide. We usually find it between the window and the fly screen and if you have the window open at night they can keep you awake by whispering all night. Up and down the fly screen they go and all you hear is phffff, phffff.....it can be very scary when you first encounter them on a dark night in a strange room and you are trying to sleep......Equally scary is our Huntsman spider

 or Heterepoda which can be on a wall somewhere but also scare you half to death when it suddenly appears and runs towards you or along furniture....their leg span can be 25-30cm....
This one is only a little one and it had been sitting on the wall the night before and suddenly,in the morning, there it was ,all its eight legs going like fury on the table by my books.... I put a jar over it and then it sat quite calmly, though in an aggressive pose, while I took photos of it. I shove a piece of cardboard under the jar so it can sit on it and I take it out into the garden and let it go onto the rough bark of a gumtree....

This photo on the left, shows you a nest of Paper wasps, Polistes humilis which live under our eaves or in a low shrub. They are not aggressive normally but they don't like to be threatened as they will attack you then and their sting is quite painful.
They make beautiful hexagonal boxes all joined together in which the young wasps are housed.
These wasps are not as big as the European ones and only live on other insects.....
We are sighting a few European wasps now though and they survive well here sadly, because our winters are not as severe as in Europe ....Click on the photos won't you.....to get a good look at what monsters live here, Down Under.....