caterpillar or pupa or cocoon at McKellar, ACT
Identification history
| Lepidoptera sp. unclassified IMMATURE moth | 13 Feb 2022 | ibaird | ||
| Lepidoptera sp. unclassified IMMATURE moth | 13 Feb 2022 | donhe | ||
| Anestia (genus) | 12 Feb 2022 | Amata |
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User's notes
Found eggs on a tree leaf on 7 February. Eggs hatched on 12 February.
3 comments
donhe
wrote:
13 Feb 2022
Anestia females usually lay their eggs on their own cocoon. I think you will have to rear a couple of hatchlings to adult moths to discover the species.
donhe
wrote:
13 Feb 2022
Obviously the leaf you found them on, and if that fails, then try each of the five basic common Australian caterpillar foods :
Gum leaves,
Wattle leaves,
Herbaceous plant leaves,
Grass, and
Lichen.
If it rejects all five, then rose petals and thinly sliced apple are good standbys. Apparently plants in Rosaceae have developed very few poisons.
Gum leaves,
Wattle leaves,
Herbaceous plant leaves,
Grass, and
Lichen.
If it rejects all five, then rose petals and thinly sliced apple are good standbys. Apparently plants in Rosaceae have developed very few poisons.
Location information
- Places McKellar, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 12 Feb 2022 05:43 PM Recorded on
- Amata Recorded by
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Insects Other moths Moths (Lepidoptera) Amata Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Tree sp. Associated plant
- Less than 5mm Animal size
- Eggs Breeding behaviour
Species information
- Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE Scientific name
- caterpillar or pupa or cocoon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1191m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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