Allocasuarina verticillata
Drooping Sheoak at Booth, ACT
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| Allocasuarina verticillata | MichaelMulvaney | 19 Aug 2019 | |
| Casuarina/Allocasuarina sp. | KMcCue | 18 Aug 2019 |
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User's notes
A caterpillar neatly severed the tree trunk or nearby branches leaving a qyite flat surface that appeared to have been sawn. But the larvae of which insect?
2 comments
19 Aug 2019
I suspect it was a yellow tailed cockatoo that severed the branch searching for a cossid moth.
19 Aug 2019
Yellow-tailed black cockatoos are busily cutting down eucalypts in Isaacs/Mugga to get insect larvae. I wish they would stick to pine cones.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.080900-35.717572
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Booth, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 6 Aug 2019 11:30 AM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
- Less than 10cm Plant height
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Species information
- Allocasuarina verticillata Scientific name
- Drooping Sheoak Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1170m Recorded at altitude
Seasonal activity
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In flower
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Record quality
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4 / 7
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