The Bogong Moth

O Yahweh, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts (Psa 104:24–25).

The Bogong moth is an Australian grey-brown moth that migrates from Queensland to the Australian Alps just outside of Canberra. the word is derived from the Aboriginal word for ‘mountain’. Hence it is the mountain moth and before European settlement it was a source of nutrition for Aborigines as…

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