Cotton bollworm, Corn earworm at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Helicoverpa armigera | 16 Jul 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Helicoverpa armigera | 9 Dec 2017 | donhe | ||
| Unverified | 9 Dec 2017 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
I found a caterpillar in my house and put it in a container to photograph later. Several hours later I found a second caterpillar. They'd perhaps been brought in with a lettuce from my garden, which I'd left on my sink overnight. They looked different so I collected both but mistakenly put them in the same container, as when I come back later there was only one caterpillar and just the head of the other. I hadn't realised that caterpillars are carnivorous. This is the survivor.
1 comment
donhe
wrote:
10 Dec 2017
WOW. LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE ADULT MOTH IF YOU CAN REAR IT, ESPECIALLY THE HINDWINGS.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.029553-35.238149
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 25 Nov 2017 06:06 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Insects Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Helicoverpa armigera Scientific name
- Cotton bollworm, Corn earworm Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1241.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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