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[Peter Cranston via Canberrabirds <>]

Wiki suggests it is called the 'hairy mary' caterpillar, but not the same as the famous HM of Hamish Imlach's Glaswegian song. A range of larger caterpillars (of large moths) are coming back in numbers including emperor gum moths, after years of scarcity. I too saw a fantailed cuckoo deal with a c. 8 cm long hairy mary yesterday, with minimal bashing to remove a few hairs and then down in one.

Pete Cranston

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 1:23 PM Kim Farley via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

Wow. Thanks Lyndon. A few days ago I saw a Fantailed Cuckoo and then an Oriole catch and devour this same sort of caterpillar Good to have a name put to it. I've not seen it before.

Kim  

On Thu, 17 Mar. 2022, 12:31 pm Lyndon Howe, <> wrote:

  Not a bird but in an interesting subject for which I would appreciate an
I.D. Photographed on the path just along from Cygnus hide at Jerrabomberra
Wetlands. It was about 7 or 8 cms. long.
                                                        Lyndon Howe.

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