Warrant and Lund researcher David Dreyer--together with colleagues from Australia, Canada, Germany, and the U.S.--studied the moth species Agrotis infusa, also known as the
Bogong moth, in Australia.
John Blay, the author, with the help of others spent years rediscovering the route along which Indigenous Australians attended
Bogong moth ceremonies in the high country and whale gatherings at Twofold Bay.
In the summer of 1950, Dr Ian Common began making weekly forays from his Canberra office to the granite boulders of the Brindabella Ranges, seeking clues to mass movement, ecology and lifecycle of the
bogong moth.
The tiny possum is already struggling to cope with habitat destruction and fragmentation, predation by feral animals and threats to its main food source, the
Bogong moth. Global warming and loss of snow cover may push it to the brink.
The Wiradjuri people of the New South Wales highlands once feasted on migrating
bogong moths every spring.
He saw the deserted bark huts which the Aborigines had temporarily erected when collecting the
bogong moths for their feasts.
The animals include: 1 wonderful wombat, 5 brilliant bilbies, 7 keen kangaroos through to the very unexpected 18 ripper red-back spiders and l 9 bonza
bogong moths etc.
Follow Ninima and his family on their summer journey into the mountains to collect
Bogong moths, and then home again to the sea.
HOWLS of protest have greeted a plan to kill off the swarms of
bogong moths that have besieged Olympic Park.
Bogong moths filled the air to near plague proportions on the first three nights of the athletics competitions.