Melba, ACT
Identification history
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth | 10 Mar 2021 | ibaird | ||
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth | 9 Mar 2021 | donhe | ||
| Unidentified | 9 Mar 2021 | kasiaaus |
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I'm sure it's not enough to identify these but I thought I'd post it anyway.
3 comments
donhe
wrote:
9 Mar 2021
The hairiness suggests Arctiinae. Please can you rear a couple in captivity to get an adult moth for an identification?
kasiaaus
wrote:
10 Mar 2021
I'm sorry but they are all gone now. I would also have had trouble finding the food plant. I still have two different ones (not hairy) in jars that have been there several months (the pupa is under the sand so I can't see it) and I don't know how long to wait. I will try to raise the next hairy one I find (I did see one yesterday but did not catch it).
donhe
wrote:
10 Mar 2021
Food is easy: offer a bit of each of the caterpillar basic food-groups: gum, wattle, grass, lichen and herbaceous. If all else fails try rose petals or thin slices of apple. Most Lepidoptera have an annual cycle and hibernate as the pupa, so they typically pupate in autumn and emerge the following spring. But one can never tell if a pupa has died, possibly from infection or desiccation. Very frustrating. Just need to rear more specimens so more get through. If you have run out of bottles, I could order you some more. And what are kitchen windowsills for?
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.049782-35.208608
- Altitude 562.3m
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 5 Mar 2021 10:53 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
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- Less than 5mm Animal size
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- Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth Scientific name
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- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1153.6m Recorded at altitude
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