Jason McDonald | Kurrajong, Moths and Weevils

Jason McDonald | Kurrajong, Moths and Weevils

A$280.00

Title | Kurrajong, Moths & Weevils
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with glass.
Size | 25.5 x 3 x 25.5 cm
Editions | 9/20 and 10/20 available
A little bit more | The drought tolerant Kurrajong Brachychiton populneus survives with a bottle trunk that stores water to sustain itself through big drys and to furnish petite pinky/red bell shaped flowers. The leaves – a valuable emergency fodder for stock, also hide the eggs of the Kurrajong Bag Moth Dichocrocis clytusalis. Young larvae live communally in a bag formed by rolling up leaves and joining them with silk. They hide in the bag by day and come out and feed at night. When fully grown they pupate in the bag, emerging as the gold and black banded moths. Traditionally used as a food source the sculptural seedpods of Kurrajong also nurse and feed the eggs and larvae of Kurrajong Seed Weevil Tepperia sterculiae; additionally the strong fibrous tree bark was used for making rope and twine, weaving stories of Australia through time.

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