Painted Apple Moth at Charleys Forest, NSW
Identification history
| Orgyia anartoides | 13 Jan 2023 | ibaird | ||
| Orgyia anartoides | 13 Jan 2023 | donhe | ||
| Unidentified | 8 Jan 2023 | arjay |
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User's notes
These delightful caterpillars are skeletonising the apple leaves quite successfully.
2 comments
donhe
wrote:
13 Jan 2023
Any identification is tentative with no view of the head or the legs. Assuming the caterpillar is facing away from the camera, I think I see two dorsal orange glands on the final two abdominal segments suggesting Lymantriinae. Also darker hairs behind the thorax and the foodplant suggests the Painted Apple Moth. I hope you can rear it in captivity, and take photos showing more diagnostic details , and better still: the adult moth.
Location information
- Maps Mongarlowe River
- Places Charleys Forest, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 8 Jan 2023 06:37 AM Recorded on
- arjay Recorded by
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Orgyia anartoides Scientific name
- Painted Apple Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 873m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Teia anartoides
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