Blue Triangle butterfly

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AUSTRALIAN SAIJIKI

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Blue Triangle butterfly

***** Location: East Coast of Australia
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation



Australia : Graphium sarpedon choredon

Graphium sarpedon, the common bluebottle, is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia, as well as parts of Australia. There are approximately 15 subspecies with differing geographical distributions.

Habitat
Graphium sarpedon is primarily an inhabitant of moist, low-level rain forests (below 1600 m/5000 feet). In these elevations it is usually seen flying just above the tree canopy. The larvae of the common bluebottle feed on trees of the laurel family, which includes the cinnamon tree, and have expanded their range to include cinnamon tree plantations.
In eastern Australia,
they have adapted to a drier subtropical environment, and are commonly seen in suburban gardens in Queensland and New South Wales.

The males are known for their habit of feeding by the edges of puddles, often at the roadside. Occasionally, as many as eight will be seen at the same puddle. They have also been known to be attracted to animal droppings, carcasses and rotting insects.
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In the East Coast, they seem to emerge as soon as it warms up in Spring and again as the warm weather finishes in pre-Autumn.
As KIGO, we will add them in SPRING, when they first appear in the year.


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Worldwide use

Butterfly (choo)Japan. Worldwide

Japanese name
aosuji ageha アオスジアゲハ（青条揚羽)


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

a glance through thick lashes
blue triangle butterfly -
turquoise on velvet

Violette Rose-Jones, Australia, March 2009

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***** Butterfly (choo)Japan. Worldwide


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