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AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 5:40 pm
by JIMCOBB49
Can anyone help with ID of these 2 butterflies seen in New South Wales?
Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:48 pm
by Padfield
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
Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:18 pm
by bugboy
I Agree with Guy with those ID's.
Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 1:33 pm
by JIMCOBB49
Many thanks to you both Jim
Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:07 pm
by David M
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).
Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:42 pm
by Sooty
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
Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:46 pm
by David M
Thanks for that, Sooty, and also for the link, which I'll spend some time looking at very soon.
Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 11:13 am
by bugboy
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).
This is a good ID guide that won't break the bank David, and its small enough to take with you.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Field ... N85AWS5DK2
Re: AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:00 pm
by David M
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!