1 Meadow Argus at Red Hill, ACT
Identification history
| Junonia villida | 30 May 2019 | MatthewFrawley | ||
| Junonia villida | 30 May 2019 | LisaH |
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User's notes
I saw 3 -4 flying around in different areas. Surprised to see them, after a few very cold days and nights!
1 comment
SuziBond
wrote:
31 May 2019
Hi Lisa, yes Meadow Argus are very tough! They can withstand freezing temperatures and they are one of the few butterflies recorded in the ACT for every month of the year.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.107482-35.326597
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Red Hill, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 Abundance
- 30 May 2019 04:08 PM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) LisaH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Junonia villida Scientific name
- Meadow Argus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1642.1m Recorded at altitude
- 777 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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