What an evocative name for a tree or group of trees and can’t you just see why they get this name! For the insect lovers out there – this is just the sort of name that we should give trees to link wildlife and the tree together.
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What an evocative name for a tree or group of trees and can’t you just see why they get this name! For the insect lovers out there – this is just the sort of name that we should give trees to link wildlife and the tree together.
Sean Freeman said,
June 14, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
It is remarkable that this relationship between moth larvea and the trees has produced to what is for us an iconic symbol of the bush. The common name is applied to a number of smooth-barked Eucalypts that have marks on the trunk caused by the burrowing activities of the larvae of a small moth. In fact scientific knowledge regarding this relationship was somewhat sketchy till quite recently. http://www.csiro.au/resources/ps28j.html#1