They also eat insects, including grasshoppers and crickets, lady birds, soldier and saltbush caterpillars, Bogong and cotton-boll moth larvae and ants.

* Bogong moth

Bogong Rocks is a shelter contains the oldest evidence of Aboriginal occupation at a bogong moth resting site.

Large scale inter-tribal gatherings were held in the High Country during summer for collective feasting on the Bogong moth.

Once this was done, the tribes would spend summer in the cooler climate of the mountains feasting on the protein rich Bogong moth ".

The Bogong moth ( Agrotis infusa ) is a temperate species of night-flying moth notable for appearing in large numbers around major public buildings in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, during spring ( late September to November ) as it migrates to the High Plains.

The Bogong moth Agrotis infusa is common throughout southern Australia.

The Bogong moth is univoltine ( i. e. it has one generation per year ).

The term " Urri Arra " refers to the Bogong moth feasts that these Aboriginal people held.

A town, Bogong, in the Australian state of Victoria has been named after the moth.

Large scale inter-tribal gatherings were held in the High Country during summer for collective feasting on the Bogong moth.

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* Agrotis infusa ( Bogong Moth )

Its diet consists of insects ( such as the Bogong Moth ), fleshy fruits, nuts, nectar and seeds.

* Zhang Yi ( Bogong ) ( died 264 ), general of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period

The lower slopes have communities of mixed gum and peppermint, including the Bogong Gum ( Eucalyptus chapmaniana ).

Indigenous visitation to Mount Bogong is generally understood to have finished by the mid 19th century.

The Eskdale spur may provide a slightly easier option up to the summit of Bogong if you have a 4wd, although if you walk up from Mountain Creek, it is just a longer way to do the same ascent.

The moth's name ' Bogong ' is the same as the mountain ranges on the High Plains i. e. the Bogongs, and may mean ' Big Fella ' hence the name for the mountains, or it may have been the name for the Moth which has been accorded to the mountains as their locale.

* Kamberra-where the name Canberra may have come from, said to mean ' meeting place ' for big Bogong moths

The Bogong Moths were an important source of food for the Aboriginal people, which would collect in their thousands in caves and rock crevices ; they were roasted on heated rock or ashes and eaten whole.

Grazing was also removed from Mounts Feathertop, Hotham and Bogong around this time, from around Mount Howitt in the 1980s, and from the northern Bogong High Plains, the Bluff and part of Davies Plains in the early 1990s, leaving about one third of the Alpine National Park – over 200, 000 hectares – available for grazing.

Dedicated Cross Country ski resorts are located at Lake Mountain, Mount Stirling and Mount St Gwinear in Victoria and popular areas for back country skiing and ski touring in the Alpine National Park, Yarra Ranges National Park and the Baw Baw National Park include: Mount Bogong, Mount Feathertop, Bogong High Plains, Mount Howitt, Mount Reynard and Snowy Plains.

He was the member for Bogong from May 1892 until May 1893 and between June 1893 and May 1901.

Mount Bogong is a popular backcountry skiing mountain through winter but only has snow for the mid winter-spring months.

Throughout the many seasons each year, Aboriginal groups would come from as far away as the coast and south west slopes, to meet with the tribes of the mountains for intertribal ceremonies and feasting on Bogong Moths.

There are many routes up Mount Bogong for hikers, including ( clockwise from north west ) Staircase Spur, Eskdale Spur, Granite Flat Spur, Long Spur, Duane Spur, and Quartz Ridge.

Mount Beauty is a launching point for trips to the ski resort, Falls Creek and to the Bogong High Plains.

The Snowy Mountains region was an important gathering point for the Aborigines of the Adaminaby and surrounding districts for many thousands of years, with inter-tribal summer meetings being held in the High Country involving up to a thousand people for feasting on the Bogong Moth.

* Agrotis velum or lycophotia molothina, a moth

The Turnip Moth ( Agrotis segetum ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

The Heart and Club ( Agrotis clavis ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

The Heart and Dart ( Agrotis exclamationis ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

The larvae of the Turnip moth, ( Agrotis segetum, Agrotis ipsilon, Agrotis exclamationis ), are well-known Noctuids whose larvae are very damaging cutworms.

* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species

Amaranths are recorded as food plants for some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species including the nutmeg moth and various case-bearer moths of the genus Coleophora: C. amaranthella, C. enchorda ( feeds exclusively on Amaranthus ), C. immortalis ( feeds exclusively on Amaranthus ), C. lineapulvella and C. versurella ( recorded on A. spinosus ).

A silk spinning moth, the Ailanthus silkmoth ( Samia cynthia ), lives on Ailanthus leaves, and yields a silk more durable and cheaper than mulberry silk, but inferior to it in fineness and gloss.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

* Callisto ( moth ), a genus of moths in the Gracillariidae family

The Engrailed ( Ectropis crepuscularia ), a geometer moth, also uses columbine as a larval foodplant.

* Brinjal fruit and shoot borer ( Leucinodes orbonalis ), a moth species

Insects that commonly transmit potato diseases or damage the plants include the Colorado potato beetle, the potato tuber moth, the green peach aphid ( Myzus persicae ), the potato aphid, beetleafhoppers, thrips, and mites.

* Psyche ( moth ), a genus of bagworm moth

In Britain and Ireland, the peppered moth is univoltine ( i. e., it has one generation per year ), whilst in south-eastern North America it is bivoltine ( two generations per year ).

* Tissue ( moth ), the geometer moth, Triphosa dubitata

Pine needles are sometimes eaten by some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species ( see list of Lepidoptera that feed on pines ), the Symphytan species Pine sawfly, and goats.

* Grease moth ( Aglossa cuprina ), a fat-feeding moth

Image: AntheraeaPolyphemusCaterpillar. jpg | Caterpillar of the Polyphemus moth ( Antheraea polyphemus ), Virginia, USA

* Papago ( moth ), a genus of geometer moths

Another example of batesian mimicry is the io moth, ( Automeris io ), which has markings on its wings which resemble an owl's eyes.

* Gem ( moth ), a moth of the family Geometridae