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White Antenna Wasp Moth

Amata nigriceps

Habitat:

Last spotted in a mating group of thirty or so moths taking up an area of about thirty cubic metres. They mated and laid eggs and now the last surviving females are about one hundred and fifty metres south of the mating territory in a territory of less than ten cubic metres. Battered and dying. Under a wide umbrella shaped tree on grass tips that are rarely disturbed there were four or five still alive

Notes:

Identity by the white tips on the antenna

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StephenSolomons
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StephenSolomons

Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Mar 26, 2013
Submitted on Apr 1, 2013

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