The Ulysses butterfly is found in most tropical rainforest areas such as Northern Queensland, Northern islands of Australia and Papua New Guinea and lives below the rainforest canopy. Did you know? Its common name is “Mountain Blue Butterfly” and is a large swallowtail butterfly.
Common grass-blue butterfly is also known as grass blue butterfly. Pea blue butterfly is also known as long-tailed pea-blue butterfly or lucerne blue butterfly.
The Common Grass Blue butterfly is seen in Sydney throughout most of the year, often in large numbers, particularly in open, grassy areas.
Commonly seen in Sydney gardens, the Blue Triangle Butterfly's triangular-shaped wings are vibrant turquoise-blue with black around the margins.
Common Grass Blues are small butterflies. They are common in Brisbane. We can easily find them flying close to the ground, on grass and low vegetation. They are purplish blue on the wings top and white with black body.
Palos Verdes Blue butterflies (Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis) are among the rarest in the United States. Native only to the Palos Verdes Peninsula in California, they were nearly extinct.
Blue is the rarest occurring colour in nature, with no true blue pigments in plants. In some ways, blue butterflies are natures way of completing the colour spectrum. From South American wonders to local Tropical icons, here's some stunning blue butterflies from around the world…
There are a few butterflies across the world with a purple appearance. Some of these include: the Purple Emperor, the Colorado Hairstreak, the Purple Hairstreak, the Rhopalocera Singaporeana, the Purple Sapphire, the Karner blue, the Purple leafwing, and the Royal Assyrian.
The purple copper butterfly is one of Australia's rarest butterfly species and is only found in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales.
Common Brown Butterflies only live in south east Australia, Tasmania and a small area of south west Western Australia. They are the most common native butterfly seen in the backyards around Melbourne & Geelong.
Cruiser Butterflies are native to Australia and found from the tip of Cape York to Townsville, Mackay and Yeppoon.
The Palos Verdes blue butterfly was presumed extinct for a decade until Dr. Rudi Mattoni discovered a population persisting at the Defense Fuel Support Point in San Pedro in 1994. The population is estimated at 300 individuals. It is now in the running for the rarest butterfly in the world.
Blue butterflies are associated with fortune and luck. Early Native American tribes believed strongly that a butterfly would carry prayers and wishes in their wings to the Spirit in the sky.
Blue butterflies are often considered a symbol of love. Blue is one of the fresh colors. Due to their colors, blue butterflies send us a vibration of joy and happiness.
The common blue is a small blue butterfly that flies throughout the summer between April and October. The most widespread of the blue butterflies, it is found in a variety of habitats, including heathland, woodland rides, grassy meadows, parks, large gardens and waste ground.
Butterflies live all over Australia. There are over 400 species and many introduced species, like the very common Cabbage White and Monarch.
Monarch. It's the world's most famous kind of butterfly. The monarch is renowned for its migration, when multiple generations work their way north during spring and summer, then a fall generation flies all the way to southern Mexico or to the California coast to spend the winter.
There are many species of “rainbow butterflies” and they live in different places around the world. Genera include Chrysiridia, Alcides, and Urania, each with several species. These are in the same sub- family, Uraniinae. Most of these are poisonous if eaten.
Queen butterflies are not, like ants and termites, the ones that lay the eggs. 'Queen' is simply the name of this species of butterfly. There are both male and female Queen butterflies. Like Monarchs, male Queens have a black spot on each hindwing.
Some butterflies may appear pink or have a pink hue because of the iridescence of their scales, but there are currently no pink butterflies. Pink is a colour that does not exist in nature as there are no pink wavelengths.
The rarest animal in the world is the vaquita (Phocoena sinus). It is a kind of critically endangered porpoise that only lives in the furthest north-western corner of the Gulf of California in Mexico. There are only 18 left in the world. It is thought that they may be extinct in ten years.
There are a total of 1,100 species of white butterflies worldwide. They are found in gardens, forests, and traveling over fields of weeds. Their bright, white wings and black spots make them hard to miss!