7 Small Ant-blue Butterfly at suppressed
Identification history
| Acrodipsas myrmecophila | 11 Dec 2021 | SuziBond | ||
| Acrodipsas myrmecophila | 11 Dec 2021 | RAllen |
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9 larvae 1 adult male
hatching
T16 H76
3 comments
Christine
wrote:
12 Dec 2021
Fabulous photos Richard, and great to know that the eggs are successfully hatching this year :)
PeterS
wrote:
13 Dec 2021
That's pretty exciting, not many people would have seen these hatching in the wild. Did you observe their behaviour at all - did they crawl into the ant nest or were they carried by the ants?
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- 9 Dec 2021 11:16 AM Recorded on
- RAllen Recorded by
Additional information
- Less than 5mm Animal size
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
Species information
- Acrodipsas myrmecophila Scientific name
- Small Ant-blue Butterfly Common name
- Highly Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-Invasive
- 148 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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