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Creature Features


Australian Rustic

Australian Rustic (Cupha prosope prosope)
I think one of the most amazing sights I have seen since studying butterflies, would have been the one I was fortunate enough to have observed back...




Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus sthenelus)
One of the more recent additions to my butterfly garden, this is also one of the more active. It always seemed to want to be somewhere else, pausing...


Four-Barred Swallowtail

Four-barred Swordtail (Protographium leosthenes leosthenes)
This is one of my favourite local butterflies and I am sure after you are have seen it for yourselves, it will become one of yours. It is a very...


Butterfly

Gardenia Bee Hawk (Cephonodes kingii)
The summer of 2001-2002 was an exceptionally good one for the Gardenia Bee Hawk (Cephonodes kingii) around Sydney. They turned up at Belrose,...


Orchard Swallowtail

Orchard Swallowtail (Papilio aegeus aegeus)
Are you one of the many people who have seen caterpillars on the citrus trees and wondered what they were? If so, this article should prove to be...


Pale Triangle

Pale Triangle (Graphium eurypylus lycaon)
Anybody who has owned a custard apple tree will be very familiar with the larvae of this butterfly, as they are quite commonly found upon it. They...


Richmond Birwing

Richmond Birdwing (Ornithoptera richmondia)
I have purposely not written about this magnificent insect previously, mainly because of the amount of information that has already been published...