(Article and photos submitted by Michael Rooke)
This cocoon cluster was found on a property at the foot of the Toowoomba Range. It was lying beneath a eucalypt tree from which it had obviously fallen. John Moss, of the Butterfly and Other Invertebrates Club, has identified it as the cocoon cluster of the Mistletoe Emperor Moth (pictured). This moth has recently been assigned to the genus Austrocaligula. The eucalypt tree from which the cocoon cluster had fallen has many clumps of mistletoe, which is the host plant of this moth.
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