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18 Oct 2025
Hello everyone. Alison Milton has put together the September quarterly CNM newsletter, with an invitation to join the new Canberra Nature Map Association. It has some interesting information for Canbe...
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Untidy
wrote:
4 hrs ago
Yep, definitely planted. My biggest concern is NBN Co ploughing through my planted verge to install the NBNFTTP upgrade. I have no idea how to contact them (their website is opaque) to ask that they liaise with me about whether their works will impact this area and to at least be given the opportunity to relocate plants if they will be affected.
Rutidosis leptorhynchoides
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
5 hrs ago
Might need some close up photos of the leaves, fruit and buds to determine which eucalypt this is.
Phascolarctos cinereus
WendyEM
wrote:
6 hrs ago
I have big problem with the NM sample photos for this moth Cryptaspasma sordida
There are (at least ) 2 genus/sp illustrated.
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=77154
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=6744&quality_grade=research&taxon_id=524567
Cryptaspasma sordida sits with its wings very tent-like, not low curve. There is a white/cream spot, with an arc of black around it on the centre of the forewing a little past 1/2 way between the base and termen. It also has a nearly reniform dark patch near it.
Moths like above don't hold their wings as tent-like, don't have pale spot with dark arc, or dark reniform patch. Palps are too long too. This moth (and 2 sample picture moths for Cryptaspasma sordida) are much more in the Cnephasia/ Rupicolana or something.
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/d2462f7a-cfe0-4288-9fb5-a35ee25f17f0#gallery
There are (at least ) 2 genus/sp illustrated.
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=77154
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=6744&quality_grade=research&taxon_id=524567
Cryptaspasma sordida sits with its wings very tent-like, not low curve. There is a white/cream spot, with an arc of black around it on the centre of the forewing a little past 1/2 way between the base and termen. It also has a nearly reniform dark patch near it.
Moths like above don't hold their wings as tent-like, don't have pale spot with dark arc, or dark reniform patch. Palps are too long too. This moth (and 2 sample picture moths for Cryptaspasma sordida) are much more in the Cnephasia/ Rupicolana or something.
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/d2462f7a-cfe0-4288-9fb5-a35ee25f17f0#gallery
Rupicolana GROUP
Significant sightings
- Cytisus scoparius subsp. scoparius at Canberra Airport, ACT
- Calochilus saprophyticus at Tharwa, ACT
- Perunga ochracea at Denman Prospect, ACT
- Diuris aurea at Bango, NSW
- Paraspania discors at O'Connor, ACT
- Swainsona recta
- Scolecobrotus variegatus at Reid, ACT
- Caladenia montana at Cotter River, ACT
- Grevillea iaspicula
- Candalides xanthospilos at Jerrabomberra, NSW
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