Allocasuarina verticillata

Drooping Sheoak at Booth, ACT

Allocasuarina verticillata at Booth, ACT - 6 Aug 2019
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Identification history

Allocasuarina verticillata 19 Aug 2019 MichaelMulvaney
Casuarina/Allocasuarina sp. 18 Aug 2019 KMcCue

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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?

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   19 Aug 2019
I suspect it was a yellow tailed cockatoo that severed the branch searching for a cossid moth.
Mike wrote:
   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.

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  • 16 - 100 Abundance
  • 6 Aug 2019 11:30 AM Recorded on
  • KMcCue Recorded by

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  • Less than 10cm Plant height

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