Anestia (genus)
A tiger moth at Scullin, ACT
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| Anestia (genus) | WendyEM | 9 Oct 2025 | |
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | donhe | 6 Apr 2023 | |
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | ibaird | 6 Apr 2023 | |
| Anestia (genus) | AlisonMilton | 5 Apr 2023 |
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3 comments
6 Apr 2023
@AlisonMilton : Those eggs look rather regularly spaced. Both Anestia and Orgyia bothe lay eggs in a clumpy fashion. They could be from some other species with a flightless female, see http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/faqs/flightless.html.
Can you take them into protective custody and see what hatches?
Can you take them into protective custody and see what hatches?
10 Apr 2023
Hi Don, I went back to collect them but I suspect they have already hatched. There is an empty shell of an insect within the web of eggs, which I have not yet investigated.
9 Oct 2025
In my experience Orgyia (Teia) has denser webbing on her cocoon and lays the eggs in a clump, not evenly scattered all over her cocoon .
Location information
- Coordinates 149.034415-35.232430
- Altitude 613.4m
- Places Scullin, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 28 Mar 2023 02:34 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
- Less than 5mm Animal size
- Eggs Breeding behaviour
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- AlisonMilton NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Anestia (genus) Tiger moths (Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Anestia (genus) Scientific name
- A tiger moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 816.87m Recorded at altitude
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