2 Bathurst or Purple Copper Butterfly at suppressed
Identification history
| Paralucia spinifera | 3 Sep 2022 | canberrabutterflies | ||
| Paralucia spinifera | 3 Sep 2022 | RAllen |
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User's notes
Lots bursaria by rocky creek and also 150 m up gully. This was the outlier today. Habitat thickened up with more canopy, better soil and less severe fire impact further on.
3 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
4 Sep 2022
Richard and Suzie - I was looking for Gang-gangs at a recorded location near Rendezvous Creek on friday it was pretty cold and cloudy so not good butterfly weather but I did look for ants on the Bursaria and didn't see any - is there something I should be looking out for?
RAllen
wrote:
4 Sep 2022
I haven’t made any attempt to locate ants. Just walk slowly through areas with regenerating bursaria and lots of exposed sunny substrate (rocks, path , crushed granite) and they flush up (rarely above 1m) like little purple blurs and usually resettle nearby. Most action between 11am 1pm. But also as early as 930 and later at 330. They re the only blue I’ve seen up there at the moment. In fact I’ve only seen a yellow admiral and couple of cabbage white in region. Occasionally I noticed lower branches of bursaria show larvae attack.
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- 1 Abundance
- 1 Sep 2022 11:53 AM Recorded on
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- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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- Paralucia spinifera Scientific name
- Bathurst or Purple Copper Butterfly Common name
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- Non-Invasive
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