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    THE MAD HATTERPILLAR

    Oct 29, 2020 1 minute

    t’s that age-old dilemma. Where to keep all those moulted heads that you’ve grown out of? On the mantelpiece? In moth, you’ll no doubt plump for the latter. Nicknamed ‘the mad hatterpillar’, after the Mad Hatter from Lewis Carroll’s , this caterpillar lives in New Zealand and Australia, where it is a serious pest of eucalyptus trees. It munches eucalyptus leaves down to the veins - a talent which has also earned it the name of ‘gum-leaf skeletoniser’ (eucalyptus trees are commonly known as gum trees).

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