Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth

Tharwa, ACT

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Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth	19 Oct 2024	donhe
Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth	18 Oct 2024	owenh
Unidentified	18 Oct 2024	Jiggy

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Public. Up Mt Tennant walking trail

5 comments

donhe wrote:

19 Oct 2024

Can you rear it to find out it's species?

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

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