Create More Butterflies : a guide to 48 butterflies and their host-plants for south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales

Create More Butterflies : a guide to 48 butterflies and their host-plants for south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales

By Frank Jordan & Helen Schwencke.

Brisbane: Earthling Enterprises, 2005

Cost

$30 plus $5 postage & packing

Description

This book contains over 250 full colour photos of butterfly lifecycles and caterpillar food plants for 48 different species of butterflies that occur in the south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales. Thirty-one of the 48 species covered were raised from butterfly eggs laid on host plants grown in a 16 perch (405 sq m) inner suburban garden in Brisbane. All photos are of living animals. Much other information is also covered.

Table of contents

Introduction What's in a name	pp 1 - 4
The Butterflies Australian Painted Lady Blue Tiger Blue Triangle Bordered Rustic Caper Gull Caper White Chequered Swallowtail Chocolate Argus Clearwing Swallowtail Common Crow Common Pencilled-blue Dainty Swallowtail Eastern Dusk-flat Evening Brown Four-barred Swordtail Fuscous Swallowtail Glasswing Imperial Hairstreak Indigo Flash Jezebel Nymph Laced Fritillary Large Grass-yellow Leafwing Lemon Migrant Lesser Wanderer Macleay's Swallowtail Meadow Argus Monarch Orchard Swallowtail Pale Triangle Plumbago Blue Purple Moonbeam Regent Skipper Richmond Birdwing Scarlet Jezebel Small Grass-yellow Small Green-banded Blue Splendid Ochre Swamp Tiger Tailed Emperor Varied Eggfly Varied Sword-grass Brown White-banded Plane White Migrant Yellow Admiral Yellow Albatross Yellow Jewel Yellow Migrant	pp 5 - 52
Getting Started with Butterfly Gardening	pp 53 - 54
Guests for Dinner	pp 55 - 57
Wild butterfly locations Boondall Wetlands Mt Coot-tha Stanley River Park Yoorala Street Revegetation Project, Enoggera Creek, The Gap White's Hill Reserve & the Bulimba Creek Catchment Cameron's Scrub and Sapling Pocket, Ipswich Conondale Range	pp 58 - 67
Observing Nature Don't Eat Me - the Plant's Point of View Don't Eat Me - the Butterfly's Point of View Pollination Ants Raising Caterpillars Ecological Relationships and Population Cycles	pp 68 - 75
Nectar Plants	p 76
Day-flying Moths (mostly)	pp 77 - 78
Resources	p 79
Index	p 80 - 83
Contacts	p 84

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