10 Small Ant-blue Butterfly at suppressed
Identification history
| Acrodipsas myrmecophila | 4 Dec 2022 | owenh |
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User's notes
THNR Small Ant-blue sightings sequence 2022. Image 1: 5 Nov 22 male (12 seen), Image 2: 6 Nov 22, female (3 seen), Image 3: 9 Nov 22, female laying eggs (15 eggs on this date), Image 4: 3 Dec 22 - eggs near hatching), Image 5: 4 Dec 22 - eggs have hatched. Images 4 and 5 taken into mirror.
4 comments
owenh
wrote:
4 Dec 2022
@michaelb - fyi, this is a new breeding site approx 60 metres east of last seasons.
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 4 Dec 2022 01:30 PM Recorded on
- owenh Recorded by
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Collections
Significant Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) owenh Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Red Box (Eucalyptus polyanthemos) Associated plant
- Coconut Ants Associated Insect
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
- Eggs Breeding behaviour
Species information
- Acrodipsas myrmecophila Scientific name
- Small Ant-blue Butterfly Common name
- Highly Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 160 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- 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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