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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Tim the Yowie Man

The insects causing a stir on the South Coast are heading our way

My inbox has been besieged with readers' accounts of bogong moths sighted in Canberra this week, but it's down the south coast where they have been in even bigger numbers.

Professor at the Department of Biology at the University of Lund in Sweden Eric Warrant. Inset: bogon moths in a Snowy Mountains cave. Pictures by Tim the Yowie Man, Eric Warrant

From the Illawarra down to Eden, these aviators are swarming outdoor lights and enamouring nature lovers in numbers not seen for over a decade.

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