BUTTERFLIES THAT COMMONLY ENTER GARDENS IN AND THE SOUTH-WEST AND PLANTS TO GROW FOR THEM TO BREED ON

Common Garden Species Highly Mobile Species

pellitory (Parietaria spp.)

various native and nettles (Urtica spp.) introduced grasses

babies’ tears (Soleirolia wedge grass-skipper yellow admiral (wingspan ~2½cm) (wingspan ~5cm) soleirolii) Photo - Matthew Williams Photo - Mavis Norgard

various plants in the daisy various native and family, including native introduced grasses Australian painted everlastings western grass-dart lady (wingspan ~2cm) (wingspan ~4½cm) Photo - Eric McCrum Photo - Robert Powell

The native food-plants in introduced clovers south-western for (Trifolium sp.) this species are unknown. common grass-blue meadow argus (wingspan ~2cm) (wingspan 4–4½cm) Photo - Eric McCrum Photo - Eric McCrum

native mistletoes many species of wattle (Acacia spp.) sandalwood (Santalum

spicatum) two-spotted line-blue spotted jezebel (wingspan ~1½cm) (wingspan 6–6½cm) Photo - Robert Powell Photo - Eric McCrum

native milkweeds (outside the South-West) various pea-plants

introduced milkweeds* long-tailed pea-blue lesser wanderer (wingspan ~2½cm) (wingspan ~6cm) Photo - Eric McCrum Photo - Eric McCrum

*Note: swan plant, also called cotton bush or milkweed (Asclepias fruticosa), is a declared noxious weed, and should not be grown. One of its relatives, the orange-flowered Asclepias curassavica, can be grown as a food-plant for the lesser wanderer.

Department of Parks and Wildlife (www.dpaw.wa.gov.au)

Species that Wander Short Distances

wattles such as coojong (Acacia saligna) and jam (Acacia acuminata) common brown: male amethyst hairstreak (wingspan 5½cm) (wingspan 2½-3 cm) Photo - David Gough/CALM various native and

introduced grasses species of rattlepods,

such as Daviesia

divaricata

varied hairstreak wattles such as coojong (similar to amethyst common brown: (Acacia saligna) and hairstreak above) female summer-scented wattle (wingspan ~3cm) (wingspan 6½cm) (Acacia rostellifera) Photos - Eric McCrum

bitter-bush (Adriana native saltbushes quadripartita) western bitterbush saltbush blue (wingspan ~2cm) blue (wingspan ~2cm) Photo - Allan Wills Photo - David Gough/CALM

various wattles, prickle lily particularly coojong (Acanthocarpus preissii) (Acacia saligna) silver-spotted ochre wattle blue (wingspan 2½–3cm) (wingspan ~2cm) Photo - Eric McCrum Photo - David Gough/CALM

FURTHER READING The following books provide additional information. • , T.F. (ed.), R.W. Hay, A.A.E. Williams, M.R. Williams [1994], Bring Back the Butterflies: Butterfly Gardening for Western (Perth: Western Australian Museum)

• Braby, M. F. (2000), The butterflies of Australia: Their Identification, Biology and Distribution (: CSIRO Publishing)

Information provided by Robert Powell and Matthew Williams.