Brujata Carpet at Freshwater Creek, VIC
Identification history
| Visiana brujata | 1 Sep 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Visiana brujata | 29 Aug 2024 | donhe | ||
| Geometridae (family) IMMATURE | 28 Aug 2024 | donhe | ||
| Unidentified | 27 Aug 2024 | WendyEM |
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defoliated medium sized nettle plants
4 comments
WendyEM
wrote:
28 Aug 2024
Yes, I had assumed it would be well known so left them to it. When I checked refs. - no! More nettles in chookyard this year - I'll watch out for them to to raise.
WendyEM
wrote:
28 Aug 2024
just found:- https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/7938/ Larval food plants of Australian Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) - a review of available data expand article info Olga Schmidt
Visiana brujata (Guenée, 1858) Feeds on: Urtica incisa (Urticaceae)
Notes: ANIC label, Schmidt (2006b), Schmidt (2013). Larvae were reared from eggs.
Visiana incertata (Walker, 1862) Feeds on: Urtica incisa (Urticaceae)
Notes: Schmidt, unpubl. data. Larvae were reared from eggs.
Look who I uploaded immediately prior to these larval shots - Sighting 4589081. Sighting 4567994 I found sheltering under a water bowl in the chook pen where the larvae shots were taken - circumstantial I know. I will still look for the larvae to raise
Visiana brujata (Guenée, 1858) Feeds on: Urtica incisa (Urticaceae)
Notes: ANIC label, Schmidt (2006b), Schmidt (2013). Larvae were reared from eggs.
Visiana incertata (Walker, 1862) Feeds on: Urtica incisa (Urticaceae)
Notes: Schmidt, unpubl. data. Larvae were reared from eggs.
Look who I uploaded immediately prior to these larval shots - Sighting 4589081. Sighting 4567994 I found sheltering under a water bowl in the chook pen where the larvae shots were taken - circumstantial I know. I will still look for the larvae to raise
WendyEM
wrote:
29 Aug 2024
I could see some chewed holes in nettles yesterday. Once gale force winds pass I will look for cats. to raise, to confirm.
Location information
- Coordinates 144.270187-38.252073
- Maps WendyM's farm at Freshwater Ck.
- Places Freshwater Creek, VIC
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 21 Jan 2022 02:19 PM Recorded on
- WendyEM Recorded by
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Insects Geometer moths (Geometridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) WendyEM Barwon South West NatureMapr
Additional information
- Urtica dioica Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Visiana brujata Scientific name
- Brujata Carpet Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 593m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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