1 Painted Apple Moth at Charleys Forest, NSW
Identification history
| Orgyia anartoides | 14 Jan 2023 | donhe | ||
| Orgyia anartoides | 14 Jan 2023 | ibaird | ||
| Unidentified | 14 Jan 2023 | arjay |
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Just added some better photos of the earlier instar.
3 comments
arjay
wrote:
14 Jan 2023
Sorry this one isn't the case moth. This is possibly the caterpillar that skeletonises apple tree leaves. It looks different to photos taken the other day so may not be the same. Or may just have progressed. It is certainly slightly larger.
Hopefully there is enough detail to identify it.
Hopefully there is enough detail to identify it.
arjay
wrote:
15 Jan 2023
That's what I figured. Interesting though that the earlier instar was a skeletonising caterpillar. The current one is just chomping on the whole leaf. And will its next incarnation eat the apples?
And yes I find behaviour and physiology more interesting than taxonomy. But you need to know what you are looking at as well as what it is doing.
And yes I find behaviour and physiology more interesting than taxonomy. But you need to know what you are looking at as well as what it is doing.
Location information
- Maps Mongarlowe River QPRC LGA
- Places Charleys Forest, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 15 Jan 2023 01:53 PM Recorded on
- arjay Recorded by
Additional information
- Apple tree Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Orgyia anartoides Scientific name
- Painted Apple Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 873m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Teia anartoides
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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