caterpillar or pupa or cocoon at Tharwa, ACT
Identification history
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | 19 Oct 2024 | donhe | ||
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | 18 Oct 2024 | owenh | ||
| Unverified | 18 Oct 2024 | Jiggy |
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Public. Up Mt Tennant walking trail
5 comments
Jiggy
wrote:
19 Oct 2024
I like you idea but I did leave it to go on with its business on the track up Mt Tennant. I'll put it on inaturalist, maybe some can work it from there. 😀😎
donhe
wrote:
19 Oct 2024
If a population of a species is stable, every pair of adults will on average produce 2 more the next year, but moths typically lay say 200 eggs, so a caterpillar in the wild will typically have only a 1% chance of surviving. Leaving a caterpillar in the wild is a virtual death sentence.
Jiggy
wrote:
19 Oct 2024
Mother nature she pretty tough, I mainly been dealing with european wasp over the last couple of years. So most nest produce on average around 1k next generation queens. In european they believe only 2%of these queens will be successful in going on to compete a cycle and rear the next generation. Where in Australia and NZ, the estimated around 30% will compete the cycle.. pretty interesting.
Jiggy
wrote:
19 Oct 2024
This is inaturalist Ai suggestion, Tiger Moths and Allies. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/247944127
Location information
- Coordinates 149.047629-35.536609
- Altitude 817.0m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Tharwa, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 13 Oct 2024 09:19 AM Recorded on
- Jiggy Recorded by
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Collections
Jiggy Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE Other moths Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Additional information
- Unknown Gender
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE Scientific name
- caterpillar or pupa or cocoon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1191m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Lepidoptera sp.
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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