Caper White at Molonglo Valley, ACT
Identification history
| Belenois java | 20 Oct 2016 | SuziBond | ||
| Belenois java | 20 Oct 2016 | SuziBond | ||
| Appias paulina | 20 Oct 2016 | galah681 |
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5 comments
SuziBond
wrote:
21 Oct 2016
Caper Whites are starting to migrate through our region at the moment. Yellow Albatross are far less common migrants here and ACT records tend to be later in the season.
galah681
wrote:
23 Oct 2016
Did not know that butterflies migrated. Do you know where these come from and where they are going to? What sort of distances?
SuziBond
wrote:
23 Oct 2016
Some ACT butterflies are migratory but most are residents. The movement patterns for our migratory butterflies are not well understood unfortunately.
KimPullen
wrote:
25 Oct 2016
They were not electronic trackers, but researchers in the US and Mexico did stick tags onto the wings of Monarch butterflies and asked people to report any they found. The tags had contact details printed onto them I think.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.066628-35.285713
- Altitude 602.3m
- Maps Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park
- Places Molonglo Valley, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 Oct 2016 12:27 PM Recorded on
- galah681 Recorded by
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Collections
galah681 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Belenois java Whites & Yellows (Pieridae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Belenois java Scientific name
- Caper White Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Migratory
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1730m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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