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Lepidoscia arctiella
This little moth larva builds it's case in stepped expanding segments from perfectly chosen and measured sticks on the host plant. In this case the host plant is a native cupressus.
In a small nature reserve in suburbia.
Some call this a 'Tower casemoth'
family: PSYCHIDAE
genus: Lepidoscia
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au...
http://www.lepbarcoding.org/australia/sp...
Spotted on Sep 21, 2014
Submitted on Sep 21, 2014
3 Comments
Yes Hema each time they choose to make another section they have developed a new sense of style. :-) Lori.tas found a wonderful spiralized version.. a close relative? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/869...
Nice spot. I'm waiting for our spiral towers to appear again. I saw a tiny one about a cm long last month, but nothing since.
Amazing!!Does this larva pick only brown colored sticks?