Orokonui Ecosanctuary/Insects

Orokonui Ecosanctuary

Te Korowai o Mihiwaka - the living cloak of Mihiwaka

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Weta

• Food parcels
• long legs
• Harems

Butterflies

• Admiral
• Ringlet
• Blue and Copper

Moths

Ghost

• Forest Ghost Moth
  • • Vegetable caterpillar - āwhato
      • Attacked by fungus
        • Eaten by Maori or used to make moko ink
• Porina
  • Caterpillar lives in soil comes out at night
• Looper
• Owlet
• Hawk
• Bagmoth
• Snout
• Leafroller

Tiger

• Magpie - Mokarakara, caterpillar (woolly bear) around tuatara encloser end of October
• Litter
• Flat
• Tussock
• Cabbage
• Leafminer

Beetles

• Longhorn
  • Huhu

Scarab

• Grass grub - larvae cases grasslands mid-November
• Ladybirds

Weevils

• Giraffe
• Sead
• Fungus
• Ground
• Tiger
• Click
• Darkling

Flies

Crane flies- Matua Waeroa

• Maori name = king mosquito
• Mid November around visitor centre
• Nectar feeders
• Many females have no wings