We have used the book “A Guide to Australian Moths by Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards” to identify some of the moths on this site.

It has 214 pages and about 400 colour photos. Now there are over 20,000 species of moths in Australia, so this book only covers a small percentage of species. But it is handy for helping to identify the families. For each family it gives the characteristics of that family and some photos of representative species.

Here is a link to some cool shots from the shortlist for the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (from the New Scientist site).

The shot of the bat in flight is neat, and I had no idea that the sandpiper photo was thousands of birds until I read the caption.