Painted apple moth caterpillar
Teia anartoides Walker
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lymantriidae
Size range
- About 40 mm long
Distribution
- Southern Australia
- Found in Glendene, Auckland in 1999
Life History
- Small moth, wingspan 22 mm
- A spray programme to eradicate it is underway
- Pest of many horticultural and forest trees
- Caterpillars eat foliage of a wide range of plants especially wattles
Further information
- More about the painted apple moth on the MAF website.
