Best Photos of Beautiful Australian Butterflies and Moths in Australia

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To see a list of the Australian butterflies that are included in this gallery

Blue Argus / Blue Pansy butterfly, Junonia orithya syn. Precis orithya
Blue Moon butterfly, Hypolimnas bolina
Blue Tiger butterfly, Tirumala limniace
Blue Triangle butterfly, Graphium sarpedon
Chequered Swallowtail butterfly, Papilio demoneus
Common Crow butterfly, Euploea core
Geometrid moth, Bracca rotundata
Hawk moth, Psilogramma papuensis
Meadow Argus butterfly, Junonia villida
Monarch / wanderer butterfly, Danaus plexippus
Moth – Neodiphthera excavus.syn. Opodiphthera excavus
Orchard swallowtail butterfly, Papilio aegeus
Painted Lady butterfly, Vanessa kershawi
Plain Tiger butterfly, Danaus chrysippus
Tiger moth, Amata species
Vine Hawk moth, Hippotion celerio
Webworm moth, Spoladea recurvalis
White-banded Noctuid moth, Donuca orbigera

Butterflies are among the most beautiful of Australian insects. This vast continent is home to approximately 400 identified species of butterflies and an estimated 10,000 species of moths, with researchers adamant that there are many more still to be discovered.

Many of these colourful insects feed on the sweet nectar produced by flowers or on the juices of fruit. Some delicately sip moisture from wet sand or mud beside waterways and pools, but others survive, for the entirety of their relatively short lives, on nothing more than the reserves that they stored in their bodies during the phase of their lives in which they were caterpillars.

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