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The pūriri moth (Aenetus virescens), also commonly called the ghost moth or pepetuna, is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. This moth is endemic...

Vitex lucens, or pūriri, is an evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand. Pūriri was first collected (by Europeans) at Tolaga Bay by Banks and Solander during...

locality on the Hauraki Plains HMNZS Puriri, boat of the Royal New Zealand Navy Pūriri moth (Aenetus virescens) Puriri River, a river of the Waikato Region...

nocturnal Orthoptera that live in holes in the trunk of this tree made by Pūriri moth caterpillars. Regional variations on the name also refer to this insect...

eaten by case moth caterpillars, but the tree is not particularly threatened by them. In New Zealand, the caterpillar of the puriri moth has also been...

the original on 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2024-03-17. "Ghost Moth Larva | UKmoths". "Puriri moth: NZAC Pare". www.landcareresearch.co.nz. Archived from the...

1880) Sabulopteryx botanica Hoare & Patrick, 2019 Aenetus virescens (pūriri moth) (Doubleday in White & Doubleday, 1843) Aoraia aspina Dugdale, 1994 Aoraia...

McKenzie captured footage of a puriri moth hatching from its chrysalis. They are probably the first pictures of a ghost moth emerging. McKenzie was diagnosed...

island include cave wētā, Kapiti ground wētā, cicada, Lycaena salustius, pūriri moth, tunnel web spider, stick insect, ngāokeoke and the giraffe weevil. In...

species as a host plant by feeding on its leaves. The caterpillars of the puriri moth use the tree as a host plant by burrowing into its trunk and eating the...

toxopeusi (New Guinea) Aenetus virescens - puriri moth (North Island, New Zealand) [13] (New Zealand's largest native moth) Recorded food plants: Carpodetus,...

nocturnal but sometimes sun basks. It eats relatively large prey, such as puriri moths and wētā. Fossil evidence suggests that it was once much more widespread...

well as the adult beetle) were more widely eaten. Mānuka beetles (and Puriri moths) were also used for medicinal purposes. New Zealand Fishing (1998) discusses...

work of Rowan Emberson and Michael Butcher South Island tussock grassland moths (Lepidoptera), based on decades of repeated sampling by Graeme White at...

group show in which Wilson's table, made of pūriri and metal, retained the tunnels eaten by pūriri moths as symbolic of the beauty yet reality of nature...

Waikato region, at least, it can outgrow native canopy tree species such as puriri (Vitex lucens) and taraire (Beilschmiedia tarairi), and become the permanent...

and in the far north has been found on pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa), puriri (Vitex lucens) and towai (Weinmannia sylvicola), and hence, is the most...