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ibaird
wrote:
26 min ago
Alison, have you any other photos of this specimen? It's difficult to identify a moth without a view of the head and mouthparts.
Lepidoptera unclassified ADULT moth
WendyEM
wrote:
6 hrs ago
I frequently find these types of egg cases under rocks, logs, bricks etc. Spiders appear to be the attendant animals
Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE
WendyEM
wrote:
6 hrs ago
I raised one looking very like this whose shelter was a totally frass? covered and enclosed (not 'bead work' on an open weave shelter like some we have seen lately) so my fella had a brown covering ('tent') on part of the leaf it was eating
Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE
WendyEM
wrote:
Yesterday
This is a standard defence pose for this groups larvae e.g. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lasi/fervens.html
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lasi/nasuta.html
I think possibly only Entometa sp have the 'ears' - flaps that stick up in threat pose
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lasi/nasuta.html
I think possibly only Entometa sp have the 'ears' - flaps that stick up in threat pose
Entometa (genus)
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