Plant Species
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Butterflies
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Acaias (wattles) A.flavescens, A.holoserica & A.melanoxylum |
Some Jewel Butterflies; Tailed Emperor; Damels Blue; Ghost Moths, Eye Spot Moths; Large Leaf Moths as well as others |
Lacewing Vine, Adenia heterophylla |
Orange Cruiser; Red Glasswing; Orange Lacewing |
Red Ash, Alphitonia excelsa |
Fiery Jewel; Copper Jewel; Greenbanded Blue; Small Greenbanded Blue; Indigo Flash; Diggles Blue; Ghost Moths; Yellow Emperor Moth |
Native Blue Fruited Ginger, Alpinia caerulea |
Banded Demon |
Soursop/Sweetsop annona muricata |
Pale Green Triangle; Green Triangle; Green Triangle |
Sugar Apple/Custard Apple Annona reticulata, A.squamosa |
Green Spotted Triangle; Pale Green Triangle; Green Triangle; Blue Triangle; Common Red-eye |
Native Dutchman’s Pipe Aristolochia tagala |
Cairns Birdwing; Red-Bodied Swallowtail; Big Greasy |
Native Dutchman’s Pipe Aristolochia thozetti |
Big Greasy; Red-Bodied Swallowtail |
Asystasia gangetica |
Leafwing; Danaid Eggfly; Blue Banded Eggfly; Blue Argus |
Flame Tree Brachychiton acerifolius |
Common Aeroplane; Tailed Emperor; Helenita Blue |
Coffee Bush Breynia oblongifolia |
Australian Rustic; Grass Yellow |
Bottlebrushes Callistemon spp |
Nectar for butterflies; Ghost Moth; Emperor Gum Moth |
Scented Myrtle Canthium coprosmoides |
Hummingbird Hawk Moths |
Sweet Scented Canthium Canthium odoratum |
Hummingbird and Bumblebee Hawk Moths |
Corky Bark Carallia biachiata |
Four O’Clock Moth (day flying moth and beautifully coloured) |
Slender Grape Cayratia clematidea |
Harlequin Moth |
Silky Celtis Tree Celtis paniculata |
Australian Beak; Tailed Emperor |
Common Celtis Celtis philippensis |
Tailed Emperor; Macleays Blue Triangle; Purple Brown-eye; Common Red-eye |
Oliver’s Laurel Cinnamomum oliveri |
Blue Triangle |
Citrus – esp grapefruit, lemon & lime trees |
Orchard Butterfly; Dingy Swallowtail; Chequered Swallowtail; Ambrax; Hummingbird Moth; Emperor Moth |
Brown Kurrajong Commersonia bartramia |
Peacock Jewel |
Northern Laurel Cryptocarya hyposyodia |
Macleays Swallowtail; Blue Triangle; Common Oakblue |
Darlingia darlingiana |
Good source of nectar for most butterflies and moths |
Climbing Derris Derris spp. trifoliata |
Orange Aeroplane; Broad-Banded Awl |
Hard Quandong Elaeocarpus obovaus |
Fiery Jewel |
Toywood Tree |
Zodiac Moth, White Striped moth |
Cherry Ballart Exocarpos cupressiformis, Native Cherry Exocarpos latifolius |
Fiery Jewel; Crow butterflies; Foam Moths; Large Leaf Moth |
October Glory Vine Faradaya splendida |
Common Oakblue; Common Tit, Common Tailed Emperor; Pale Ciliate Blue; Eone Blue |
Figs Ficus spp esp. F.racemosa;F.macrophylla |
Crow butterflies; Common Moonbeam; Foam Moths |
Buttonwood/Cheese Tree Glochidion spp.esp. G. ferdinandi, G. phillipicum |
Common Oakblue; Hercules Moth; Ghost Moths |
Ischnostemma carnosum (syn. Cynanchum carnosum) |
Black & White Tiger; Lesser Wanderer; Blue Tiger; Common Crow |
Brush Box Lophostemon conferta |
Common Red-eye; Rare Regent Skipper; Fiery Jewel |
Melaleuca spp. Mviridiflora, M.leucadendron & M.dealbata |
Dull Oakblue; Common Oakblue; Ghost Moths: Flowers attract a range of butterflies |
Melicope/Euodia spp. espM.elleryana; E.bonwickii |
Ulysses butterfly; Ghost Moths; Emperor Moths |
Mistletoes esp. Ameyma Dedrophthoe spp. |
Northern Jezabel; Union Jack; Common Jezabel; Nysa Jezabel; Genoveva Azure; Purple Azure; Olane Azure; Dodds Azure; Cooktown Azure; Silky Azure; Amaryllis Azure; Narcissus Jewel; Diggles Blue; various Oakblues; Mistletoe Emperor Moths |
Burny Bean Mucuna gigantea |
Green Awl; Tailed Green Banded Blue |
Ant Plant Myrmecodia beccarii |
Apollo Jewel; Sphinx Hawk Moth |
Booly Gum/White Bollywood Neolitsea Dealbata |
Blue Triangle; Purple Brown-eye |
Bleeding Heart Omalanthus novoguineensis |
Hercules Moth |
Day Moth Vine Omphalea queenslandiae |
Zodia Moth |
White Mulberry Pipturus argenteus |
White Nymph |
Cocy Apple Planchonia careya |
Copper Jewel; Emperor Moth |
Basswood Polyscias ssp |
Hercules Moth |
Pastel Flower Pseuderanthemum variabile |
Blue Banded Eggfly; Common Daniad Eggfly; Leafwing; Blue Argus |
Zig Zag Vine Rauwenhoffia leichardtii (syn. Melodorum leichardtii) |
Four Bar Swordtail; Pale Green Triangle; Green Spotted Triangle |
Brazil Red Bell Plant xRuellia tuberosa |
Australian Lurcher |
Gunstock Wood/Flintwood Scolopia braunii |
Australian Rustic; Zebra Moth |
Corky Milk Vine Secamone elliptica |
Blue Tiger; Crow butterfly |
Small Tetra Beech Tetrasynandra longipes |
Regent Skipper |
Damson/Almond Terminalia espT.muelleri |
Common Oakblue; Narcisuss Jewel; Copper Jewel; Emperor Moth |
Timonius timon |
Hercules Moth; Emperor Moth |
Wilkiea huegeliana & W.macrophylla |
Regent skipper |
Yellowood Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum |
Orchard Butterfly; Ambrax; Capaneus |