Nectar scarab at Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Phyllotocus macleayi | 26 Nov 2024 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Phyllotocus macleayi | 26 Nov 2024 | HelenCross |
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User's notes
Attracted to light along with many Sericesthis cockchafers
2 comments
RogerF
wrote:
27 Nov 2024
ABC local radio inundated with calls about the mass emergence of scarabs last night and what to do about them. Just turn off all lights did not occur to complainants.
AlisonMilton
wrote:
27 Nov 2024
@RogerF They are certainly hatching in the thousands at the moment. One of our dog meet-up group said they saw a huge ball of beetles, of at least three species, around a street lamp at Hawker one evening last week. The ball was about a metre in width.
Location information
- Maps Lions Youth Haven - Westwood Farm A.C.T.
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- HelenCross Recorded by
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Collections
HelenCross Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Phyllotocus macleayi Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Phyllotocus macleayi Scientific name
- Nectar scarab Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1396.63m Recorded at altitude
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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