I once asked a friend, who was born in the Danish town of Aarhus, if people from Aarhus were known as Aarhusholes.

These moths have to grow large because they're marsupials

H. bolina females are so variable! Here are two I photographed on consecutive days at sites only about 5kms apart in Darwin, Australia during March 2018 : https://www.purvision.com/butterflies/Hypolimnas_bolina/46.JPG https://www.purvision.com/butterflies/Hypolimnas_bolina/48.JPG The second one was...

Hi Wurzel - I don't think there'll be much on the wing in Perth at that time of year as it's so hot and dry. Most species there fly around late October and early November.

In case any of you are thinking of coming over to Australia
https://www.purvision.com/australian-butterfly-sites/

Hi Sylvie - I've no idea why you wouldn't be able to view my photos and website, unless there's something blocking http requests between you and Canada (which is where my website is hosted). Tony - unfortunately I really didn't get a decent look at its legs, which was a shame because I've seen plent...

Thanks guys. Pete - your Costa Rica photos really whetted my appetite for the Huatulco holiday :-) I wish I could have seen the Elf, but it wasn't on the wing at that time of year. Like you, I got to see and photograph White-nosed Coatimundis. There were several of them in the La Copaita Eco-Archaeo...

http://www.purvision.com/butterflies/zzzzz_Mexico-Hesperiidae/2045.JPG http://www.purvision.com/butterflies/zzzzz_Mexico-Hesperiidae/2046.JPG Glassy-winged Skipper ( Xenophanes tryxus ). I saw a few of these at La Copalita, and another at the edge of the forest near La Bocana. http://www.purvision....

And now the IDs become more tentative as we reach the Hesperiidae. Mexico has a huge number of Hesperids, many of them being quite spectacular although the really colourful ones weren't to be found at Huatulco in February. However I did see a lot of Long-Tailed skippers, of various species. They cou...

I only saw 2 species of Papilionidae; there are many others but once again I'd have had much more luck at a different time of year. http://www.purvision.com/butterflies/zzzzz_Mexico-Papilionidae/6001.JPG I've got this down as being a Thoas Swallowtail ( Heraclides thoas ). When I posted it on Facebo...

Lycaenidae - the Lycaenids were very disappointing. That part of Mexico is home to a large number of species, many of them very colourful, but I suspect this is where being at the peak of the dry season really had the biggest effect. Apart from one really spectacular butterfly I mostly saw very smal...

Next up : Riodinidae. Mexico has loads of species, which was exciting for me because Australia only has one, and I wasn't able to find it on my one and only trip to the Iron Range in November 2013. http://www.purvision.com/butterflies/zzzzz_Mexico-Riodinidae/4004.JPG This lovely little thing is the ...

We spent 18 days in Huatulco last month, and I took my camera along in the hope of finding some butterflies. I got 3 days of butterflying, plus there were a couple of other occasions where I got to spend maybe two hours at a time looking around close to where we were staying, just seeing what I coul...

Some great butterflies there! I'm spending 18 days in Huatulco, Mexico in February and I plan on spending a few days getting out with my camera.

I'm not surprised you didn't see many butterflies on the Bondi-Coogee walk; I've never found that that sort of environment to be very productive. I think November / December is a better time of year to go butterflying in NSW than Jan/Feb. Quite a lot of butterflies only fly in the spring, or have sp...

E. angulipennis is great as it can be found on the wing at all times of the year. If you want to get photos it's best to get there early in the morning, as the butterflies spend a fair bit of time basking in the sunshine and are much easier to photograph. Once they get fully warmed up they prefer t...

Even in Sydney, where the species is very common, H. merope females are rarely seen until summer. The males can be extremely common in Spring, but not the females, which become very common in the autumn. It's unusual to see both sexes together. They actually eclose at the same time, and mate early, ...

I agree with your Geitoneura identifications. I get klugii in NSW, and also G. acantha (Ringed Xenica), but minyas is restricted to WA. Other than those 2 Xenicas the only Satyrid found in south-western WA is Heteronympha merope , the Common Brown, though it's really not that common there in my expe...

Junonia villida is a very common species here, despite being an accidental introduction (from Hampstead)

I'd be happy to provide you with info. Plenty of average-looking butterflies like this Hypochrysops delicia are waiting for you :