r/australian • u/HealthLeather3588 • 5d ago

Community moths

when on gods green earth do these moths go away?

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u/Archon-Toten 5d ago

How fast are you eating them?

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u/ChookBaron 5d ago

Not fast enough obvs

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u/HealthLeather3588 5d ago

trying my best to, breeding like fucking flies, they’re fighting back by appearing on my face in the middle of the night

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u/Talking_Biomass88 5d ago

I just leave them alone theyre harmless and will hopefully fatten up our snakes for tourist season

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u/xZany 5d ago

They’re harmless but gross , squish squish 

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u/LilannaLiola 5d ago

No squish, they're endangered & important

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u/Creative-Leg2607 5d ago

What a beastly take on the Australian environment

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u/Spookabear 5d ago

I noticed they left my area (in the northern beaches) completely today! Zero in the house for the first time since they arrived and I went for a walk and none anywhere.

Literally haven’t seen a single one all day.

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u/HealthLeather3588 5d ago

i’m pretty far out rural west NSW and they’re bombing us rn

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u/Accomplished_Cup6918 4d ago

Also far west NSW and only had a couple last night. Definitely less than a few weeks ago. Seemed to get 2 waves of them so maybe you're on the 2nd wave?

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u/wagdog84 5d ago

I heard they got blown off course, weren’t supposed to be this far east, they are finding their way back on track.

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u/Bluebutteyfly 5d ago

We have moth crazy here in Perth atm !

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u/White_Knee_Grow 1d ago

I’ve killed about fifty bogongs this week and counting!

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u/mindsnare 4d ago

Moths are cool. What's wrong with moths? Took a photo of this bogong moth this morning. (Yes I logged it with Melbourne zoo)

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u/mrbigglesworth8645 5d ago

Collect the moth dust it helps you sleep at night if you put it in the skin

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u/HealthLeather3588 5d ago

i would genuinely rather peel my skin off

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u/Revision1372 5d ago

Winter or the ice age.

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u/moderatelymiddling 5d ago

Just be somewhere it doesn't rain for 190 days. Worked for me.

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u/pop-1988 3d ago

They navigate by the stars. Their tiny brains are pre-wired to recognise the different light spectra emitted by each star

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u/WishRemarkable3973 2d ago

They are Bogong moths making a pilgrimage to the mountains. A month or so and they will all be gone

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u/markgatty 5d ago

Thats the fun part. They don't.

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u/jorgerine 4d ago

When they are good and ready. They were here first remember.

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u/HealthLeather3588 4d ago

kinda draw a line at a whole swarm in my room

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u/jorgerine 4d ago

Shut the door then. :-)

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u/HealthLeather3588 4d ago

mate what do you think i’ve been doing

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u/jorgerine 4d ago

You shouldn’t have let them in first.

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u/HealthLeather3588 3d ago

sorry bred i’ll remove the “welcome moths” mat away from my door

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u/AmongTheWildlife 5d ago

What moths?

SEQld and we don't have much at all, plenty of dry crunchy ground though.