Well we may not have many frogs but we gets some very pretty visitors :)
Can anyone tell me if this is some type of swallowtail?
I can't seem to find anything like it on the web.
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HI birdie
I think it may be fuscous swallowtail.
Ed Townsville NQ
I find this site http://www.purvision.com/butterflies/index.htmluseful for butterfly IDs
I start with the thumbnail list.
Brilliant link Marj thanks.
Birdie you should send them your fuscous, theirs has seen better days :-)
Ed Townsville NQ
Thanks Marj for the link, but I got a bit confused as to whether it is a Fuscous or and orchard butterfly. I saw an illustration that looked exactly like it and I thought it said an Orchard. I have searched far and wide on the net but can't find one with tails such as this so I will send the pic to Don Herbison Evans and let him decide. Last time I found a huge hawkmoth caterpillar he was helpful.
ed, yes I agree theirs have seen better days, it was actually hard to compare the two!!
I was lucky that he stayed for ages as it was raining and I think he was water logged!
Quite beautiful :)
Birdie.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Google images search for Fuscous
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DAAU,DAAU:2006-33,DAAU:en&q=Papilio+fuscus
The Orchard doesn't have the tails, I believe.
Marj
Thanks a lot. I didn't think of looking under its scientific name!!
Yes that is it exactly.
Cheers
Birdie
Sunshine Coast Queensland
It is indeed a fuscus and I was lucky to be able to observe it at length so it seems. My picture is now on the website
[url]http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/papi/fuscus.html[url] so I am glad that someone wanted it.
The other site declined as they only use their own pics.
Such a beautiful creature. :)
Sunshine Coast Queensland
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/papi/fuscus.html
sorry about that
Sunshine Coast Queensland