Apparently bogong moths make an annual migration from Queensland to the alps in NSW and Victoria to beat the heat of Queensland for the summer, that’s over 1000 km! Aborigines would visit the mountains in the summer months to collect the moths to eat….they are said to taste like roasted peanuts when cooked. I remember being on an outcrop of rock one evening as the moths left their crevices at Mt. Buffalo in Victoria. There were thousands of them, and some got caught up in my hair as they flew past.
We’ve had a moth infestation over the last few days. Hundreds of moths have been flying around our flat, and creeping into the crevices of the sliding door frame so that when you open the outside door in the morning, loads of moths fly out (they seek dark cool places to spend the day). Because they creep into these sorts of places, some have also managed to get inside. We found out yesterday that the moths were, indeed, bogong moths. We have had some very strong westerly winds over the last few days, and apparently these poor moths have been blown off course on the way down south and have ended up in Sydney! So we finally got our explanation of why so many moths have been fluttering around lately.
Andrew said that last night he woke up when the guy who lives in a flat opposite us (in another building on the same complex) spent about 10 minutes spraying the moths. While I felt sorry for the moths, who didn’t do him any harm and didn’t mean to be here anyway, I had to laugh at how ineffective his actions would have been. With every 100 moths he killed, there would have been another 100 to move on in!
