The Small Green-Banded Blue (Psychonotis caelius) is a small but very attractive Lycaenid butterfly. It is found on the East coast of Australia from the tip of Cape York as far South as Wollongong in NSW. Although it’s not widespread in the Sydney area, there are colonies in places where its main foodplant Alphitonia excelsa …
Brooklyn NSW : a site for Small Green-banded Blue Read More »
Since I returned from Mexico I have been out Butterhiking 3 times, without getting round to loading any of the images to my website. Having revamped the site I’ve now processed the backlog, so I’m now completely up to date. It must be time to get out with my camera again, before the season finishes …
March 2019 : Butterflying at Bell, Ingleburn and Lawson Read More »
When Michael Braby’s enormous 2-volume tome Butterflies of Australia : Their Identification, Biology and Distribution was published in 2000 it included 9 species of Ant-Blues, a group of small and elusive butterflies classified in the genus Acrodipsas. In 2004 a 10th species, the Northern Ant-Blue (A. decima) was described, having been found hilltopping at Mount Burrell in the …
On 12 January 2019 I found my first ever NSW specimen of Hypochrysops ignitus (Fiery Jewel), after previously photographing this species in QLD, SA and WA. It was a rather unusual sighting because I’m not aware of other records of this species from the Blue Mountains. The butterfly was not in good condition and there …
Huatulco, Mexico in February 2019. For my first visit to Mexico my then wife and I spent almost 3 weeks in Huatulco; naturally I took my camera along so I could spend a couple of days looking for some of the localbutterflies. The Mexican state of Oaxaca, in which Huatulco resides, is home to something …
Coalcliff 31/01/2019. This was my annual unsuccessful attempt to get photos of the Dark Shield-skipper (Timoconia tymbophora). I walked the Wodi Wodi Track from where it joined the Lawrence Hargrave Drive near Coalcliff to the other end at Stanwell Park station, which was only a few kilometres but over very rugged terrain and on a …
I made my first ever trip to Tasmania on 15th-16th January; a very quick visit in an attempt to find Nesoxenica leprea on the slopes of Mount Wellington. I saw a couple flying slowly around but they never settled for a moment, so I couldn’t get any photos. However, I was able to get …
I have converted my old website’s Updates page entries for the years 2004 to 2018 into a single post. From now on each time I add a batch of photos to the Gallery I will provide the details in the form a separate Blog post, which will most likely be much prettier and contain photos. …
