It was burying time for the Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Shane Rattenbury, and ecologists at land adjacent to the arboretum on Wednesday, as 100 golden sun moth larvae, harvested from the Majura Parkway area, arrived at their new homes after research at the University of Canberra.
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Ecologist Bill Sea said the ''world-first'' movement of the larvae had allowed for studies that could help protect the endangered, native Australian insect. After two or three years of underground growth, the golden sun moth lives for less than a week above the surface.
The moth larvae are part of the 500 which have called the university home after being moved in March prior to construction starting for the realigned road, spending winter in pots inside a greenhouse before being buried. Matthew Raggatt
