Search & Identify Caterpillar Borers in Australia

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Cactoblastis cactorum reddish, black warts, lives communally inside phyllode of Prickly Pear cactus

Cochylis atricapitana white, bores into stem of Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)

Epiblema strenuana white, bores into stem of Feverfew (Parthenium hysterophorus)

COSSIDAE off-white or red bores into treetrunks or the ground

HEPIALIDAE off-white or red bores into treetrunks or the ground

XYLORYCTIDAE off-white bores into branches

SESIIDAE off-white bores into branches

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(written 16 July 2020, updated 30 October 2020)