Bag-shelter Moths, Processionary Caterpillars at Greenway, ACT
Identification history
| Thaumetopoeinae (subfamily) | 6 Oct 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Thaumetopoeinae (subfamily) | 24 Jul 2018 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Thaumetopoeinae (subfamily) | 24 Jul 2018 | donhe | ||
| Anthelidae (family) | 22 Jul 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 23 Jan 2017 | MichaelBedingfield |
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User's notes
Size - 12-15mm; on the east side of the Murrumbidgee River, north of Pine Island.
1 comment
donhe
wrote:
24 Jul 2018
I agree that a number of the Anthelidae feed on Poaceae,
but it has no obvious verrucae, so I think it is in Thaumetopoeinae,
and had strayed from it's foodplant.
but it has no obvious verrucae, so I think it is in Thaumetopoeinae,
and had strayed from it's foodplant.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.055508-35.426369
- Altitude 585.9m
- Maps Pine Island to Point Hut
- Places Greenway, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 21 Dec 2016 07:43 PM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
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Insects Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera)
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Thaumetopoeinae (subfamily) Scientific name
- Bag-shelter Moths, Processionary Caterpillars Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 694m Recorded at altitude
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