Autumn Gum Moth caterpillar
Mnesampela privata
-33.3817, 151.484
Field Notes
Description:
about 1 cm green caterpillar in large numbers
Habitat:
on a sapling which was also under heavy predation by several other species. In a disturbed and trafficked position by a path in a woodland used to screen an oval. Eucalypt
Notes:
I believe this a species of leaf skeletonising caterpillar (The spell check has failed me again. Taken at night using a torch for light and a Fuji 4250. Thanks to Martini (Project Noah) for the identification
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Photographed
PublishedMay 8, 2013
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