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Leaf Roller Caterpillar

Tortricid

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Field Notes

Description:

caterpillar. Brown green. 3 or 4cm

Habitat:

Living in a nest made of silk, living and dead leaves and frass on a living sapling. There are many nests of this kind on this sapling and there seem to be no more then one or two caterpillars per nest

Notes:

file #frass cat
This seems to fit the description of a Tortricid Leaf Rolling Caterpillar so I am calling it that. There are lot of different species from this family in the area

Reference Links:

Tortricidae, Caterpillars of Australian TORTRICIDAE

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
StephenSolomons
Still finding them at this time of year? I will have to go back up there and see if they survived the bored teenagers. Their branches were right on the track and a lot of those bushes were ripped out when the kiddies got bored
Mark Ridgway
I'm finding heaps of nests like this lately. Must do some science on them.

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Mission
Flora & Fauna of New South Wales
Mission
Caterpillars and larvae of the World

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PublishedMay 8, 2013

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