In the early autumn weeks in the Mackenzie Basin, Canterbury, the array of life that is so present in summer begins to dwindle. As it seems that all life forms have finished blooming and arising from the earth, a small moth begins to emerge from its hidden cocoon, to begins its adult life. It lives in the mix of rank and dry grasses along the Haldon Road, near where the Grays River flows. Locally, it is abundant, with large gatherings of these moths resting on the grasses, moving like fl...
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