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Unidentified at suppressed - 26 Dec 2022
Unidentified at suppressed - 26 Dec 2022
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Opodiphthera eucalypti 18 Nov 2024 donhe
Opodiphthera (genus) 16 Nov 2024 WendyEM
Opodiphthera (genus) 3 Jan 2023 HelenCross
Unidentified 28 Dec 2022 HelenCross

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11 comments

   29 Dec 2022
Is the leaf a gum leaf?
HelenCross wrote:
   29 Dec 2022
Yes, it is
donhe wrote:
   4 Jan 2023
Opodiphthera is an interesting suggestion. Did you see them being laid,? Or have you seen eggs spaced like this from Emperor moths previously? I have never encountered any. If not, then other insects besides moths may have laid them. If you can keep them and rear them, it would be good to have documentary evidence of their species.
WendyEM wrote:
   16 Nov 2024
This is just what Opodiphthera eggs look like. The spacing varies. I photographed some on a young Eucalypt a few days ago one egg had hatched and there was a lovely Opodiphthera helena larvae nearby.
donhe wrote:
   17 Nov 2024
Bit different from Dianne's photo at
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/satu/eucalypti.html
?
WendyEM wrote:
   17 Nov 2024
That photo is hardly a natural placing of the eggs - on ?plastic ?glass. In nature they lay on the foodplant. The hatchlings do not disperse by 'ballooning' like some lepidoptera larva do. For hatchlings to survive mum needs to have placed the eggs on a foodplant. see Sighting 4564982, 4462446 & 4616234
donhe wrote:
   17 Nov 2024
This sighting is certainly like those. What do O. heleni eggs look like ?
HelenCross wrote:
   18 Nov 2024
Thanks Wendy and Don, if I see any more like this I'll try and rear them
WendyEM wrote:
   18 Nov 2024
Opodiphthera helena - 2nd photo Sighting 4616234
donhe wrote:
   18 Nov 2024
So O. helena eggs seem to be laid closer together than those of O. eucalypti, so these are O. eucalpti ?
WendyEM wrote:
   18 Nov 2024
I am not sure

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