Heteronymphas, Ogyris and Far North Queensland To Blackheath for Heteronymphas In March I twice went to Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, hoping to get better photos of some Heteronymphas. I’ve previously had some luck at the Campbell Rhododendron Gardens and this was where I spent much of my time on these two days. The …
The late, great Douglas Adams’ book “So Long And Thanks For All The Fish” features a character named Rob McKenna who is a Rain God; rain clouds follow him wherever he goes as they want to be near him, to love him, to cherish him and to water him. I think he and I must …
This month has been a bit more successful than October, though I have still made some visits to sites in the Sydney area that were so disappointing as to not be worth mentioning. The trips described below were the better ones… 04/11/2020 : Bell My second visit to Bell this season came 3 weeks after …
It’s been a while since my last update, and that’s because there hasn’t been all that much to report. I’ve been out to a number of butterfly sites around Sydney this Spring, but there haven’t been many butterflies to see. I’ve had days where I walked for 6 or 7 hours and got no photos …
I hadn’t been to Cairns for two years but I found myself with some time on my hands, so when Nils Beaven from Australian Butterflies Conservation invited me to join him for a few days of butterflying in that area I booked some flights and headed up to Far North Queensland. The weather had been …
It’s been a long time since I updated my blog, and that’s because there hasn’t really been all that much going on. It’s not been a good butterfly season so far in the Sydney area. As everyone in the world knows (except for one guy living in an underground bunker 50 miles outside Des Moines …
In June 2019 my wife and I spent around 8 days at West Kelowna in British Columbia, Canada. It was just a short trip to attend a family wedding (which was great by the way), but I took my camera along just in case I got any opportunities to go butterhiking. Naturally family events took …
See also my blog post describing the Mount Annan Botanic Gardens site. Most years I try to get out to the Mount Annan Botanic Gardens during April or May, as in my experience that’s the best time to go looking for butterflies there. 2019’s trip was on 21st May, which turned out to be a …
Winter is coming! The weather around Sydney has been beautiful recently with lots of lovely sunny days, though it’s getting quite chilly at night with winter being just around the corner. Thankfully the Night King has recently been defeated and destroyed, so hopefully it won’t be a long winter. On 17th May 2019 I decided …
May 2019 : Butterflying at Glenbrook and Emu Plains Read More »
The Southern Pearl-white (Elodina angulipennis) is the only member of its genus which can be found reliably in Sydney, owing to the fact that it breeds in the Royal Botanic Gardens on Sydney Harbour. Its close relatives E. padusa (Narrow-winged Pearl-white) and E. parthia (Striated Pearl-white) do turn up around Sydney but don’t appear to …
