Backyard Zoology · 12 January 2018
2018-01-12T16:22:54+11:00
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So...butterflies are quite photogenic. I MAY have taken a FEW photos but hey, this butterfly just happens to be sporting an eye in one of my favourite colours: duck egg blue. So apologies for the loads of photos but sorry not sorry 😂🙌

And before anyone jumps in, let me get in first - this is NOT a native insect - it was introduced to Australia around the 1920s, but this isn't Backyard Native Animals Only and it's a pretty awesome accidental pollinator; you can see how it brushes against and picks up pollen on its legs and proboscis as it goes about feeding. So yes, I know it's a pest but let me have this one please because such pretty, so duck egg blue 🙌😍

Cabbage White Butterfly  
Wollongong Botanic Garden

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