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Must be the season for it. On page 2 of the Wgton CityLife (Jan 18). there's a story of someone who saw one of these Australian moths opodiphthera eucalypti ( beating against his bathroom window ) on Christmas Eve. This one had a wingspan of 12 cm. Says that they only live for 2 weeks.

This one's 13.5cm. It's no longer reacting even when touched. Only know it's alive cause it's moved one of it's legs a little. Their feet have amazing grip tho. When it was standing on my hand earlier it felt like I had duct-tape on me :P

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By the way it's still alive, I intermittently hear flapping. I've also discovered 4 of what seem to be eggs. I found online that the eggs tend to hatch in 7-10 days, but have no idea what they eat. I don't know if they're considered a pest or not, since caterpillars eat leaves i assume. But if they're not considered too harmful, I'd love to let them hatch and move them somewhere with suitable food for them.

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By the way it's still alive, I intermittently hear flapping. I've also discovered 4 of what seem to be eggs. I found online that the eggs tend to hatch in 7-10 days, but have no idea what they eat. I don't know if they're considered a pest or not, since caterpillars eat leaves i assume. But if they're not considered too harmful, I'd love to let them hatch and move them somewhere with suitable food for them.

Gum trees. The caterpillars of this moth are my favourite, very beautiful, I regularly collected them as a child from the large gum tree at the end of our street. Heres a pic of the caterpillar

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And this was an honoured guest in the kids favourite climbing tree acouple of weeks ago. He appeared to lick the tree for a day and then left.

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