Mother Shield Fern at Tharwa, ACT
Identification history
| Polystichum proliferum | 6 Oct 2018 | dcnicholls | ||
| Unidentified | 31 Mar 2018 | jeremyahagan |
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Caterpillar found feeding on unknown plant in Namadgi National Park.
2 comments
donhe
wrote:
9 Aug 2018
Can you get the plant identified to family?
It looks like it might be a fern which would exclude Arctiinae.
It looks like it might be a fern which would exclude Arctiinae.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
10 Aug 2018
Don - David Nichols identified the plant as a fern, Polystichum proliferum so not an Arctiinae moth feeding on it
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.912553-35.774911
- Altitude 1539.1m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Tharwa, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 30 Mar 2018 09:24 AM Recorded on
- jeremyahagan Recorded by
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Polystichum proliferum Scientific name
- Mother Shield Fern Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1909.31m Recorded at altitude
- 188 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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