Hypochrysops miskini Coral Jewel

Photo Gallery updates 2004 – 2018

Photo Gallery Updates

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.

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31/12/2018

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11/12/2018

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21/11/2018

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24/10/2018

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28/04/2018

I made my first ever trip to Darwin. Whilst butterflies were much less abundant than I had expected I did have some luck.

 

 

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Thanks to various people who helped me find these butterflies, particularly Richard Weir and Graham Wurtz.

 

17/03/2018

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23/02/2018

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27/01/2018

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19/11/2017

 

 

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None of these photos would have been possible without Alex in SA and Derek in WA. Thanks guys!

29/10/2017

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17/05/2017

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25/03/2017

18/03/2017

I spent a few days in Cairns; whilst it wasn’t really a butterflying trip I did spend a couple of days in the company of Bob Miller, and thanks to his help I was able to find some butterflies, including some species I hadn’t previously seen. Unfortunately there wasn’t a lot on the wing.

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08/12/2016
  • New species : Antipodia chaostola (Heath Sand Skipper). It’s a larva, not an adult, but I’m still counting it. Thanks to Al, who found the larva and showed it to me.

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03/12/2016

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19/11/2016

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15/11/2016

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09/11/2016

I made my second trip to WA, 8 years after my first visit. It had been a very bad winter (by WA standards), and there were hardly any butterflies around, even in locations such as Koondoola and Port Kennedy, where I had previously found plenty of interesting species. However I did have some success, due in a large part to fellow butterfly photographer Derek Longhurst, with whom I travelled through such exciting places as Wyalkatchem (the Cradle of Bulk Handling, no less). We were armed with lots of information provided by Geoff Walker, Matt Williams and Ross Field, without which we would have found almost nothing on our trips East and North of Perth.
Thanks for all your help Derek et al – it’s much appreciated.

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22/10/2016

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29/09/2016

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30/07/2016

Having bought the 2nd edition of Michael Braby’s “Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia”, I decided it was time I updated the website to reflect the taxonomic changes that have occurred over the last few years. Several species have been renamed, one or two species have been relegated to subspecies level, and some new species have been described.

I’ve been changing the look and feel of the website over the last few weeks; there haven’t been many changes to the content, I’ve just been giving the site a bit of a fresher look.

09/04/2016

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19/03/2016

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01/03/2016

13/02/2016

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09/02/2016

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I also added a link to Bob Miller’s Butterflies site, which has a huge collection of larvae and pupae photos.

07/01/2016

After a holiday on Koh Samui in Thailand, I’ve added some photos of Thai butterflies :
Papilionidae page.
Pieridae page.
Nymphalidae page.
Lycaenidae page.
Riodinidae page.
Hesperiidae page.

I was lucky enough to spend a day at Hin Lad with Les Day, author of the Samui Butterflies website. Thanks Les; and thanks for helping with some IDs. I’m sure I’ve still got several wrong 🙂

 

 

 

30/09/2015

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27/04/2015

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23/12/2014

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10/12/2014

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Also added a link to Cheryl Ridge’s Butterfly photos in the Links page.

Thanks to Nils for locating Suniana lascivia, which I had never found around Sydney myself, and for letting me photograph the Papilionids he’s been rearing at home.

29/10/2014

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28/08/2014
  • Added photos of more Canadian Butterflies

09/06/2014

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Thanks to Al and Mark for providing the pupae of H. digglesii, D. democles and P. leosthenes.

06/01/2014

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04/12/2013

I spent a few days in the Iron Range and in Cairns. It wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped, but I did get a few shots :

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10/11/2013

I was going through some old photos and found a few I hadn’t used :

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26/10/2013

14/09/2013

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01/08/2013

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28/04/2013

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14/04/2013

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26/01/2013

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27/10/2012

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21/10/2012

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01/10/2012

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17/05/2012

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23/10/2011

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16/10/2011

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02/10/2011

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23/05/2011

16/05/2011

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30/04/2011

Another trip to Cairns and a successful one at that, thanks mainly to the help of Bob Miller (who can spot something as great as Pseudodipsas eone whilst going back to the car for a drink of water!).

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11/04/2011

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17/01/2011

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09/01/2011

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25/12/2010

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I also fixed some URLs on the Links page, and added a link to Mick Sands’ photos on Flickr. It’s a small collection of pics, but well worth viewing as it’s a very interesting selection of species (including 5 species I don’t have, dammit!)

21/12/2010

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18/12/2010

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05/06/2010

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10/04/2010

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15/03/2010

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22/02/2010

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15/02/2010

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I still have a couple of skippers to ID from this trip. Thanks to Mick and Alecks – looking forward to going butterflying again with you guys.

01/02/2010

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24/01/2010

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18/12/2009

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16/11/2009

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20/10/2009

Added a link to Geoff Walker’s Australian Butterflies Photographed website. I thought I was mad, trying to get pics of all the butterfly species in Australia, but Geoff is trying to get all the subspecies too!

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23/09/2009

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15/09/2009

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30/08/2009

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17/03/2009

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Also added a link to Janet Richardson’s Australian Butterfly DVDs site in the Links page.

10/02/2009

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21/01/2009

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20/01/2009

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12/12/2008

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22/11/2008

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Also added a link to the “Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network” in the Links page.

04/11/2008

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I would like to thank Matt Williams, who provided me with the information I used to find just about all of the new species I photographed around Perth. Without Matt’s help, I suspect I might have had a very disappointing trip!

06/10/2008

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30/09/2008

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25/09/2008

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18/09/2008

I spent a few more days in Cairns. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t much good for the first few days, so I didn’t see as many butterflies as I might have hoped for. I’d have seen a lot less than I did, if it wasn’t for Bob Miller and Ian Hill, who showed me some good sites and who are both MUCH better at spotting butterflies than I am. Thanks guys!

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02/09/2008

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29/07/2008

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17/07/2008

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02/07/2008

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09/06/2008

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02/05/2008

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13/04/2008

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06/04/2008

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28/03/2008

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18/02/2008

11/02/2008

Special thanks to Mick Sands, who showed me where to find these three new species, and went out of his way to ensure that I got photos of A. monticolae.

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02/10/2007

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26/09/2007

23/09/2007

08/09/2007

Back to Cairns again, where I met up with Bob Miller, who showed me some good butterfly sites, as well as giving me reared Philiris spp to photograph.
On this trip I got photos of the following new species :

21/04/2007

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04/03/2007

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28/05/2006

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21/05/2006

I spent a few more days in Cairns, and got photos of the following new species :

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02/04/2006

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19/03/2006

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18/03/2006

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06/11/2005

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31/10/2005

I spent a few days in Cairns, and I got a lot of photos. I hope you’re sitting comfortably…….
The following species are all new to me :

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08/10/2005

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25/09/2005

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18/09/2005

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14/09/2005

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06/11/2005

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11/03/2005

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05/12/2004

04/12/2004

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27/11/2004

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26/11/2004

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21/11/2004

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18/11/2004

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07/11/2004

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I also concluded that some of the earlier photos I had identified as O. walkeri were in fact of Ocybadistes flavovittata (Narrow-brand Grass-dart), so I moved them onto a new page for that species (and also added a new photo).

31/10/2004

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23/10/2004

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14/10/2004

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12/10/2004

11/10/2004
  • New species : Lampides boeticus (Long-tailed Pea-Blue).
  • New species : Toxidia doubledayi (Lilac Grass-skipper). I did have this as a species previously, but it had been a misidentification.

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10/10/2004

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09/10/2004

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03/10/2004

26/09/2004

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24/09/2004

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13/09/2004

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04/09/2004

28/08/2004
  • New species : Nacaduba biocellata (Two-spotted Line-Blue). For some reason this species has eluded me for months, despite it being just about the most common butterfly in the country. I took photos of 48 other species before finally finding this one.

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24/08/2004

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14/08/2004

10/08/2004

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31/07/2004

25/07/2004

03/07/2004

26/06/2004

Added photos of  Zizina labradus (Common Grass Blue).

09/06/2004

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29/05/2004

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22/05/2004

21/05/2004

19/05/2004

15/05/2004

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10/05/2004
  • This website goes online!

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