Bird deaths and Bogong Moths

[John Harris <>]

A sad postscript to the current thread about low numbers of Bogong moths is that they breed on the coast often on farmland where corn etc is grown and they absorb Agicultural chemicals. They carry these chemical residues to the mountains where a Park Ranger told me that increasing bird deaths of insectivorous species were attributed  to ingesting hebicides, pesticides etc. from eating the moths. Same must apply here in the ACT now I think about it.....