For dessert, the sugary stems of the
Bogong Daisy-bush Olearia frostii can be chewed.
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.
They run down from Feathertop, Townsend and
Bogong. (108) They run through the Ash and the Pine of Tumbarumba [long musical pause].
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.
Patterns of air temperature and accumulation of snow in subalpine heathlands and grasslands on the
Bogong High Plains, Victoria.
(40.) Zhu, "Du Zihou 'Buyue' shi shi wen Lu
Bogong fu hou shuri fu ci".
The Wiradjuri people of the New South Wales highlands once feasted on migrating
bogong moths every spring.
The detail and interest in this book just gets better and better as you delve into the world of bush tucker bugs, sweet bush foods, edible bugs and grubs, nutritional analysis of caterpillars, feasting on
bogong moths, tasty hoppers, locusts and crickets.
However, Thompson's source is not Lingard 1846 but a misinterpreted passage attributed to Lingard 1846 in 'Mallacoota Memories', a Mallacoota and District Historical Society publication (1980:23) (1) which reads, 'The Genore River was followed by the Biduelli tribe--"scrub dwellers" = on their annual treck [sic] to the Monaro each Spring, hunting for a type of yam and the
Bogong moth larvae'.
He saw the deserted bark huts which the Aborigines had temporarily erected when collecting the
bogong moths for their feasts.