Allocasuarina verticillata

Drooping Sheoak at Booth, ACT

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Identification history

	Allocasuarina verticillata	19 Aug 2019	MichaelMulvaney
	Casuarina/Allocasuarina sp.	18 Aug 2019	KMcCue

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User's notes

A caterpillar neatly severed the tree trunk or nearby branches leaving a qyite flat surface that appeared to have been sawn. But the larvae of which insect?

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MichaelMulvaney wrote:

19 Aug 2019

I suspect it was a yellow tailed cockatoo that severed the branch searching for a cossid moth.

Mike wrote:

19 Aug 2019

Yellow-tailed black cockatoos are busily cutting down eucalypts in Isaacs/Mugga to get insect larvae. I wish they would stick to pine cones.

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Sighting information

16 - 100 Abundance
6 Aug 2019 11:30 AM Recorded on
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Plants Other Trees KMcCue Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

Less than 10cm Plant height

Species information

Allocasuarina verticillata Scientific name
Drooping Sheoak Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1081.18m Recorded at altitude
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In flower

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Australian Capital Territory

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Queensland

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South Australia

Victoria

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