alt Hacker News> [Bogong moths] provide an ample food source due to their large numbers and high fat content.
Considering they were eaten near the alps where they spend the summer sleeping in caves (aestivate not hibernate!), there must have been some serious respect for that food resource. There apparently are 16000 months per square meter in those caves. Feels like the risk of over fishing is high.
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aa-jv • last Friday at 10:29 AM
I don't think the Australian aborigines ever overfished anything. From my experience, they managed their resources with superlative efficiency. 10,000 year old fish traps in my old home region are still in operation...
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They're actually in pretty serious trouble as a species, with potential to go extinct.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-17/bogong-moth-populatio...
I can remember bogon moths all over the fly-screens on our house windows at nighttime in Sydney 50 years ago. In the last 30 years or so, I've seen one bogon moth in Sydney (a couple of years ago).