Search & Identify
Caterpillars that live in shelters
in Australia
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


Wingia aurata

constructs a tough spiral shelter
between gum leaves

Netrocoryne repanda

cuts a circular disc of leaf
and folds it over,
on Camphor Laurel

HESPERIIDAE

off-white with black head,
lives in leaf held folded with silk

OECOPHORIDAE

lives between leaves joined with silk


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(written 16 July 2020, updated 30 October 2020)