Geometridae (family) IMMATURE

Tura Beach, NSW

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Identification history

Geometridae (family) IMMATURE	10 Jun 2025	ibaird
Geometridae (family) IMMATURE	27 May 2025	WendyEM
Unverified	6 Apr 2019	Steff

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This caterpillar kind of thing was dangling by a silk thread from the tree. It landed on the windscreen. The photo with the hand behind the insect is taken from inside the car, looking at the caterpillar's underside. We saw another one dangling from a branch as we walked along the path. What are they?

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donhe wrote:

10 Jun 2025

@Steff : Can you find out what sort of tree it fell from? Different species choose different trees. Also please can you rear a couple to get an adult moth so that we can determine its species ?

Steff wrote:

11 Jun 2025

Hi @donhe
I'm not sure what kind of tree it fell from as it was on the windscreen of the car, but it's probably from the trees growing at the Tura Headland walking trail.
There is no chance of me rearing one of these as I saw this 6 years ago and I have no knowledge what it was let alone of how to rear it. I would not take an unknown creature from the wild.

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Sighting information

2 Abundance
6 Apr 2019 12:30 PM Recorded on
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Steff NatureMapr South Coast Geometer moths (Geometridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects

Species information

Geometridae (family) IMMATURE Scientific name
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Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1418.1m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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