Giant Moths South Australia

Unfortunately for them on this occasion the rain moth got it wrong theyve only had 42.

Giant moths south australia. This female had a wingspan of 36cm. Nicknamed the rain moth farmers in the upper south east of south australia are hopeful the appearance of large numbers of the insects might be a sign of things to come. Hercules moth coscinocera hercules the biggest moth in the world hails from none other than tropical north queensland. Around half of these have been scientifically named.

They could certainly do with it down that way apparently the area around pooginagoric in south australia has been in drought for two years now. The largest ever hercules moth was discovered in innisfail approximately 110km south of kuranda. But its not just the prevalence of the moths that has got adelaideans attention its the. The almighty hercules moth has a whopping wing span of 27 centimetres.

Australian moths online does not include images of all described species and deliberately excludes species that have not been described. Few moths are seen flying during the day in south australia but on suitable warm nights an outside light without moon shine can attract many local moths. Arrival of giant moths brings promise of rain to south east south australia kate hill thursday april 7 2016 1515 est with their wingspan measuring up to a whopping 16cm across the appearance of large numbers of the trictena atripalpis or rain moth is quite a sight. Abantiades argentata and abantiades atripalpus both brown and a whitegrey species abantiades marcidus.

Australia has around 22 000 species of moths. A wetter than average autumn might have brought parts of south australia some respite from the drought but it has also brought adelaide swarms of rain moths. Adelaide and regional south australia has three species of rain moth. The giant wood moth is the heaviest moth in the world with some females weighing up to 30 grams.

The rain moths appear in areas following rain typically in this time of year. The caterpillars of wood moths feed on plant roots but the adults do not feed during their short life span. Home south australian sun moths. Give all people the chance to see some of australias rarely observed biodiversity treasures.

The sun moths belong in the castniidae family which in the australian region presently contains the single genus synemon doubleday 1846.