There is an abundance this spring of common brown butterflies at our abode. I attribute this to the big increase in the areas of native grasses which are their preferred habitat & on which they lay their eggs. This might explain why some weeks ago I saw New Holland honeyeaters seemingly hawking for insects among native grasses. Maybe they were after common brown butterfly eggs although I haven't heard of these being part of their diet.
Thanks for this post, Woko. I did not realise this was an Australian butterfly until now, I thought you were referring to the Monarch butterfly so I have learnt something today.
Alison
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"the earth is not only for humans, but for all animals and living things."
I think, for some reason this year there are large numbers of butterflies everywhere. I don't know much about them, but this morning I saw two rather large black ones with a yellow dot in the top corners of the wing and two smaller red dots on the tail.(if butterflies had a tail, you know what I mean)
They didn't sit still for long, no photo, I followed them for a while.) M-L
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Yey!! Got him just then.How lucky is that? Anybody knows what he is called? M-L
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HaHa, no idea where I saw the yellow dots? Wouldnt be any good as a witness in a murder trail? Not much yellow on him, is there? LOL M-L
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Here it is Araminta
[link=http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Orchard-Swallowtail/Papilio/aegeus.html]... Swallowtail[/link]
Alison
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"the earth is not only for humans, but for all animals and living things."
Whoopeedo, Araminta. And thanks for the i.d., qyn. I'm becoming a butterfly fan, partly because they're beautiful in appearance & flight & partly because they're part of our ecologies & provide food for birds (& thought).
I counted approximately 81 common brown butterflies today.
LOL, there could be a job in that.
I saw something very fascinating, one of those butterflies was attacked by another of the same species, male I suspect,(what else could it be?). He followed him and kept flying into him and chassing him. Never seen that before.
M-L