Here is one taken by our son in the ANBG.
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From: martin butterfield <>
Date: 7 February 2011 9:51:29 PM AEDT
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Butterflies in ANBG
Note that the larvae and pupae are now in an Acacia mearnsii ( possibly A decurrens, I have trouble with these two)- NOT A dealbata. Although they are investigated by the imagos the nearest A dealbata are further off the bitumen road.
Martin
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Tony Lawson
<> wrote:
For the many COG
lepidopterists:
(T)here is a spectacular colony of Jalmenus
evagoras (Imperial Hairstreak) in the Australian National Botanic Gardens
at present.
It is at the top of the rainforest gully but up on the
southern side beside the upper bitumen road opposite the larger of the two
bottle trees which are in Section 120/117.
There are butterflies, ants larvae and pupae in clusters on
a small Acacia dealbata.
Cheers,
Ted.