Pasture Day Moth (Apina
callisto) - there was a big discussion on this list about them last year
in late August-September, see the archive for more details
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2008-08/index.html
A search under caterpillars
should turn up plenty
Cheers
Steve
From: Nick Payne
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Sent: Saturday, 23 August 2008 3:19 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Can anyone identify these caterpillars?
This afternoon, while
walking across the oval between Blaxland Crescent and the Griffith shops, about
every five or ten metres I came across one of these caterpillars, each of them
busy digging itself a hole. Every 20 seconds or so the caterpillar would back
out of the hole, deposit a small ball of dirt, and head down the hole again to
grub out some more. Average body length around 3.5-4cm.
Nick Payne
