Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth

Tharwa, ACT

Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth at Tharwa, ACT - 13 Oct 2024
Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth at Tharwa, ACT - 13 Oct 2024
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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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