Queensland - GIANT WOOD MOTH

In late Spring and early Summer in Queensland Eastern Australia, the RSPCA and the various Wild Life people often receive calls from people who report seeing birds flying at night around street lights.
What they are seeing is the Giant Wood Moth that has hatched from its pupae in eucalypt trees.
YES! They are so huge that they resemble a small bird.
Here is one in the palm of my husband Rays hand.

  The Giant Wood Moth is the Worlds largest moth weighing in at 30 grams and with a wing span of 25 cms .(10 inches). The aborigines used to travel down the water courses searching for these delicacies to cook and eat them.
They are also an enjoyable meal for the Black Cockatoos, who use their strong bills to rip open tree bark, uncover and eat them.  Between the Moth and the Cockatoo, the trees can be destroyed.

I have been told that the wood moth will eat a hole into a pineapple, then eat the whole inside of the fruit just leaving the shell remaining.

NEXT POST will be on our cockatoos.... we have many different varieties.
AND.... The Lord God made them all.