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

Indlela yokusiqaphela
- 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
Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba
Iinwele ezincinci okanye iinwele ezirhabaxa ziyaqhawuka esikhumbeni kwaye ziyahlaba.
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.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
Senza ntoni xa soyika?
When disturbed, caterpillars curl up into a tight bunch, and their loose hairs can be carried away on the wind.1
Ukuba uchukumisa iinwele zaso
- Kwiinwele zemibungu ehlabayo: zisuse ngeteyipu encamathelayo, emva koko uhlambe isikhumba. Musa ukukhuhla.
- Kukulunywa: hlamba uze upholise. Fumana uncedo lwezonyango ukuba umntu uziva engaphilanga kakuhle okanye wopha lula.
Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala
Hlala ukhuselekile
- Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
- Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Ukuba uchukumisa iinwele zaso: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.
Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
mfutshane kunomnwe wakho omncinci
sicotha kunenkumba yasegadiniU-Bag-shelter moth mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?
Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.
Sikhawuleza kangakanani?
Iinyaniso
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
Kwiingcali zetyhefu
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Ochrogaster lunifer
- Iqela
- Imibungu nezinambuzane
- Usapho
- Notodontidae2
- Ucwangco
- Lepidoptera
- Amazwekazi
- IOstreliya neOceania
- Iintsana
- 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
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3
Apho iinyaniso zivela khona
- Ochrogaster (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Ochrogaster lunifer (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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