Bogong moths: the bush tucker superfood swarming Canberra

By Katie Burgess
Updated December 24 2016 - 10:08am, first published November 6 2016 - 8:45pm
Jackson Taylor-Grant looks towards the Brindabellas, where bogong moths hide in the cool rock crevices during summer. Photo: Jay Cronan
Jackson Taylor-Grant looks towards the Brindabellas, where bogong moths hide in the cool rock crevices during summer. Photo: Jay Cronan
A bogong moth feasting on a blossom in a Canberra backyard in 2013.  Photo: Alison Jones
A bogong moth feasting on a blossom in a Canberra backyard in 2013. Photo: Alison Jones

They sweep over Canberra each year in the hundreds of thousands, from the cracked, black soil where they were born into the cool dark crevices of the mountains of the Great Dividing Range.

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