Candalides xanthospilos

Jalmenus evagoras

Jalmenus evagorus
The caterpillars are making a meal of this ‘Black Wattle’, protected by large numbers of attendant ants. Many have pupated, and the oldest have eclosed … so the bush is surrounded by fluttering butterflies. We tend to prefer ‘butterfly bush’ as a common name for Acacia mearnsii.

Erina acasta
At first glance this looked like our common blue (Erina hyacinthina), but it’s actually a species we’ve not seen here before. Larval food plant? Cassytha. And that’s a plant we currently have rather a lot of!