Puriri Moth

Puriri Moth

Aenetus virescens
Scale 5 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

5 POINTS

• Aenetus virescens has a FLIGHT of 2

• Aenetus virescens spends 5 or so years of its life as a grub in a tree trunk, with the last 48 hrs of its life as a moth.

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The puriri moth, Aenetus virescens, is a moth of the family Hepialidae, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It is New Zealand’s largest moth, with a wingspan of up to 150 mm.[1][2] The moth spends the first five to six years of its life as a grub in a tree trunk (including non-native species such as Eucalyptus), with the last 48 […] read more
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The puriri moth, Aenetus virescens, is a moth of the family Hepialidae, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It is New Zealand’s largest moth, with a wingspan of up to 150 mm.[1][2]

The moth spends the first five to six years of its life as a grub in a tree trunk (including non-native species such as Eucalyptus), with the last 48 hours of its life as a moth. Footage has been taken of a puriri moth chrysalis hatching over a period of one hour and forty minutes.[3]

(From Wikipedia, March 2013)