4WD threat to rare moth

Post by **Mark** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:19 am

Taken from nzherald.co.nz
9:00AM Tuesday June 12, 2007

Four-wheel-drive vehicle users at Marlborough's Cloudy Bay are being asked not to stray from existing tracks, to avoid damaging the habitat of a rare moth that lives nowhere else.

The mat daisy jumper, first discovered in 1999, is flightless and only known to live in a 2km strip of the Cloudy Bay foreshore. About 3mm to 5mm long, the moth looks like grass seed and use a distinctive jumping action to get about.

A Department of Conservation officer said signs of off-track 4WD activity had been found in Cloudy Bay foreshore areas inhabited by the moth.[/url]

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:13 pm

sounds like an interesting little character.. 3 - 5mm long and it jumps ? but its a moth ? and you have to dodge it in your 4x4 ? must be a mean sonofabich...maybe has razor claws and fire breath or something :roll:

Post by **Mark** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:47 pm

Careful mate... the moths are watching... and they are just waiting for the next unsuspecting fool...

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:38 pm

holy jumping razor claw moths Batman ! thats a mean looking sonofabitch :shock:

needswork · Post by **needswork** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:16 pm

Probably arrived here inside an imported 4WD from Japan.
Then jumped truck!