A tortrix or leafroller moth at McKellar, ACT
Identification history
| Heliocosma (genus - immature) | 11 Mar 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Heliocosma (genus - immature) | 10 Mar 2024 | donhe | ||
| Heliocosma (genus) | 4 Dec 2023 | kasiaaus |
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User's notes
Pollinator Survey at Blue Devil Grassland. Not sure if you count caterpillars as pollinators but this was such an obvious "on flower insect" ;-)
1 comment
donhe
wrote:
4 Dec 2023
If the caterpillars travel from flower to flower, they will carry pollen, and so be a pollinator.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.069058-35.219439
- Altitude 558.8m
- Places McKellar, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 3 Dec 2023 03:41 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
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Collections
Blue Devil Grassland (BDG) 3 Dec 2023 Insects Tortricid moths (Tortricidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) kasiaaus Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- Feeding on nectar or pollen Insect behaviour on flower
- True Pollinator Insect on Flower
Species information
- Heliocosma (genus - immature) Scientific name
- A tortrix or leafroller moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1065.73m Recorded at altitude
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