Bag-shelter moth
The bag-shelter moth is a moth whose caterpillars live together in silken bag nests and march in long lines. Its hairs can cause skin rashes, so it matters to anyone who lives in or visits mainland Australia.1

Uko wayimenya
- Adult moths have a woolly appearance and wings up to 5.5 cm across.1
- Forewings are dark grey or brown. Hindwings are white, shading to grey at the base.1
- Some moths have a pale dot in the centre of each forewing, and some have white lines across the wings.1
- The abdomen is banded and ends in a white tuft of hairs.1
- Caterpillars live in brown silk bag nests by day and feed at night, moving in single-file lines.1
Imbaraga z'ubumara
Ubwoya buto cyane cyangwa uduhwa ducika tukaguma mu ruhu tukaryana.
Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?
Akaga ku bantu: IrababazaIshobora kubabaza cyane, ariko hafi ya buri gihe nta kibazo gikomeye biteza.The hairs on the egg masses, caterpillars and adult moths can cause irritating skin rashes (dermatitis) in humans and other animals. Records also list osteomyelitis, eye inflammation (ophthalmia) and more severe allergic reactions. In horses, eating the caterpillars may cause pregnant mares to abort.1
Ikora iki iyo ifite ubwoba?
When disturbed, caterpillars curl up into a tight bunch, and their loose hairs can be carried away on the wind.1
Niba ukoze ku bwoya bwayo
- Ku bwoya bw'ibinyabwoya biryana: bukureho ukoresheje sikoci ifata, hanyuma woze uruhu. Ntugakube.
- Iyo yarumye: oza aho yarumye kandi uhakonjeshe. Shaka ubufasha bwa muganga niba umuntu yumva atameze neza cyangwa ava amaraso byoroshye.
Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze
Irinde akaga
- Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
- Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
- Niba ukoze ku bwoya bwayo: tuza, ntunyeganyege, hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911) cyangwa ujye ku bitaro vuba. Ibuka uko yasaga, ifoto irafasha.
Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Ikoresha ubumara bwayo kugira ngo ifate ibyo kurya cyangwa yirinde, kandi ikunda cyane kwihisha. Ibindi ku kwirinda
Ingana gute?
Ireshya ite?
ngufi kurusha agahera kawe
itinda kurusha ikinyamushongo cyo mu murimaBag-shelter moth ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?
Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.
Yihuta gute?
Ibintu by'ukuri
The final caterpillar stage carries more than two million urticating hairs (setae).1
A procession can contain a hundred or more caterpillars, each one holding onto the tail hairs of the one in front.1
Caterpillars follow silk trails left by others, and if two meet on each other's trails they can walk in a circle, sometimes forming a large circular mass.1
Females cover their eggs with scales from the tuft at the end of their abdomen to protect them from predators.1
The whole life cycle takes one year, and the caterpillars live together as a group from egg to pre-pupa.1
Ku bahanga mu by'ubumara
- Izina rya siyansi
- Ochrogaster lunifer
- Itsinda
- Ibinyabwoya n'udukoko
- Umuryango
- Notodontidae2
- Itsinda rinini (order)
- Lepidoptera
- Imigabane
- Ositaraliya na Oseyaniya
- Abana bato
- Females lay an egg mass of 150 to 550 eggs on the trunk or in the canopy of a host tree. The eggs hatch after about 3 to 4 weeks.1
- Akaga ku bantu
- 2 / 5: Irababaza3
Aho ibintu bivugwa bituruka
- Ochrogaster (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Ochrogaster lunifer (iNaturalist): amazina n'ibyiciro.
- Venom Wiki: urwego rw'akaga, ingano isanzwe n'ikigereranyo cy'umuvuduko ni ibyacu bwite. Reba uko tubibara: Uko tugena akaga.
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