Bogong moths

["Hawkins, Brian" <>]

I didn’t find any on Gingera in January 2018 or January this year either.  In January 2018 there were plenty of Little Ravens around Gingera, which I took as a sign that there were Bogong moths about, but this year there were no Little Ravens either.  So no Bogongs?   

 

Brian

 

From: McComas Taylor <>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:06 AM
To: Birds Canberra <>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Bogong moths

 

We found no living Bogong moths in the caverns on Gingera in Jan 2018 where there had been countless thousands in earlier years.

 

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From: David Rees <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:11:48 PM
To: Marg Peachey
Cc: Elizabeth Compston; Birds Canberra
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Bogong moths

 

They breed up in northern NSW and southern Qld before coming to the cool of the mountains to escape the heat of summer.  Given there has been a major drought event in the breeding range of these moths it is hardly surprising that so few can be found up in the mountains this summer.

 

David

 

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:21 PM Marg Peachey <> wrote:

Hi Elizabeth,

 

I stay at Perisher after the ski season, usually the last weekend of October.  Some years there are many bogongs crowding around the windows at night, last October there might have been about 4 in the whole week we were there.

 

Maybe they were early, or late, but hardly any when some years there are loads of them.

 

Marg 

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:08 PM Elizabeth Compston <> wrote:

What about bogong moths this year? None seen here before Christmas, and no complaints from Parliament House.  Has anyone been to the mountains and seen them under the over hanging rocks ?

Elizabeth
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