I never saw the eggs being laid. In fact, I didn't see the eggs until I brought the leaves home to feed some beetle larvae. The eggs have not hatched yet (I have had them four days).
So at this stage, we have evidence that they are even animal? There are plants that grow nodules on their leaves that appear to be simulated eggs, apparently to deter real moths from laying real eggs on them.
I studied M. privata in the 80's when there were massive outbreaks on eucs with glacous juvenile ro adult foliage, such as the Argyle Apple, and egs masses were present on leaves everywhere in autumn. Pictures published in leaflet No 1 by CSIRO 1991. It woud be easy to find the eggs next month on juvenile foliage of eucs like rubida, bridgesiana and macarthuri.
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