This
caterpillar is all decked out for Halloween! Ecologist and photographer
Lui Weber snapped a photo of the rare pink underwing moth caterpillar,
which has skull-like markings on its head:
Found
below the altitude of 600m in undisturbed, subtropical rainforest, the
species survives on the vine Carronia multisepalea, a collapsed shrub
that provides the food and habitat the moth requires in order to breed.
Lui
said: 'Sadly this moth is very rare I only know of a single adult seen
last year so I do not have photographs of the adult yet.
'This southern subspecies is listed as nationally endangered in Australia.'
The Daily Mail has more awesome photos by Lui:
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