AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Can anyone help with ID of these 2 butterflies seen in New South Wales?
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Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Hello Jim.
Your first butterfly is (I believe) a female lemon migrant, Catopsilia pomona. The second is (again - I believe!) the saltbush blue, Theclinesthes serpentata.
Guy
Your first butterfly is (I believe) a female lemon migrant, Catopsilia pomona. The second is (again - I believe!) the saltbush blue, Theclinesthes serpentata.
Guy
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Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Many thanks to you both Jim
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What kind of numbers are butterflies about in in that part of Australia, Jim? I have an open invitation to visit but do not have enough spare annual leave to do justice to such a trip right now (although that will change when I retire).
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I agree with Guy's IDs.
David - this has not been a good season for butterflies. I live in Sydney; last March it rained virtually the whole month and that seemed to hit the autumn generation badly. This was followed by a long dry spell which meant many larval foodplants have been in short supply, leading to a shortage of butterflies.
I was in Cairns a few weeks ago; their last few wet seasons have not been very wet, so I didn't see all that many butterflies there either, at least not by Wet Tropics standards. Since then it's been raining very heavily, so maybe there'll be a big emergence in the not too distant future.
I'm going up to Darwin in mid-April - hopefully things will be better up there.
http://www.purvision.com/butterflies
David - this has not been a good season for butterflies. I live in Sydney; last March it rained virtually the whole month and that seemed to hit the autumn generation badly. This was followed by a long dry spell which meant many larval foodplants have been in short supply, leading to a shortage of butterflies.
I was in Cairns a few weeks ago; their last few wet seasons have not been very wet, so I didn't see all that many butterflies there either, at least not by Wet Tropics standards. Since then it's been raining very heavily, so maybe there'll be a big emergence in the not too distant future.
I'm going up to Darwin in mid-April - hopefully things will be better up there.
http://www.purvision.com/butterflies
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Thanks for that, Sooty, and also for the link, which I'll spend some time looking at very soon.
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This is a good ID guide that won't break the bank David, and its small enough to take with you.David M wrote:What kind of numbers are butterflies about in in that part of Australia, Jim? I have an open invitation to visit but do not have enough spare annual leave to do justice to such a trip right now (although that will change when I retire).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Field ... N85AWS5DK2
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Thanks for the link, BB. Looks like a recent tome.
I'm sure I'll get round to it one day, but in the meantime there's far too much going on closer to home!
I'm sure I'll get round to it one day, but in the meantime there's far too much going on closer to home!