Friday, April 9, 2010

Season of the Gomphrena

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The local hilltops and dried up seep streams have seen a profusion of white, red and blue Gomphrena and bluish-white Spermacoce calliantha come into flower and take advantage of a sunny and mostly grassy rather than shrubby ecosystem. I have also seen two or three types of moths and butterflies attracted to these plants. Not many Eucalyptus are in the flowering mode but I came across some low hanging Mistletoe which is almost ready to bloom in their Eucalypt havens.
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Gomphrena flaccida
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Chequred Swallowtail Papilio demoleus
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Chequred Swallowtail Papilio demoleus
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Clearwing Swallowtail Cressida Cressida
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Glasswing Acraea andromacha
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Glasswing Acraea andromacha
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Orange Tiger Danaus genutia
feeding on Gomphrena sp.
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Evening Brown
Melanitis leda wet season form
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Forest Watcher Huonia melvillensis
Feeding on Utethesia sp.
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Unidentified Apocrita
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Mistletoe Amyeman sanguineum var. pulchrum
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Happarana sp. Catantopini
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Cockroach
Ellipsidion sp. nymph
feeding on Crotalaria goreensis
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