Lots of birds of late but not so many bugs. We were looking at a house this morning and there were a few birds around in the rain but this was the highlight - a beautiful silk moth, drenched and waterlogged in the middle of the path. I stopped anybody treading on it and then took a couple of photos with my G9 before removing the moth to somewhere dry where it could recover.
I hope Dr. Roger Kendrick will not mind me quoting from his excellent thesis, which states:
Global distribution: India, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China (HuN, HeB, SD, FJ, GD, GX, GZ) (Wu, 1984; Liang et al., 1989; Zhu & Wang, 1996; Brosch et al., 1999; Nässig, 2000).
H.K. distribution: uncertain, possibly restricted (TLF, Lam Tsuen). H.K. status: uncertain, possibly rare or declining. H.K. larval hosts: Cinnamomum camphora (L.) J. Presl. (Lauraceae) and Liquidamber formosana Hance (Hamamelidaceae) (Lee & Winney, 1982). Notes: populations of this species appear to be localised and declining in number (P. Aston, pers. com.), although some populations are quite abundant. Previously reported in Hong Kong (e.g. Lee & Winney, 1982; Hill et al., 1982) in the genus Eriogyna, which was synonymised with Saturnia by Nässig (1994). Hill et al. (1982) reported this species as quite common, page 208 especially in the New Territoires and that it was probably univoltine (without specifying when), but that it was possible there may be a “second generation in the summer sometimes”."
This record is consistent with it being univoltine / February.
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