Another common brown butterfly of south eastern Australia. The Meadow Argus Butterfly is commonly seen in the company of the European Painted Lady butterfly.
More information on the Meadow Argus butterfly can be found on the Brisbane Insects web site.
The European Painted Lady is a very common butterfly during the warmer summer and autumn months. They gather in large numbers on our Lavender bushes, frequent the Buddlieas and bask in the warm sun on the lawn, orchard grasses, dirt and gravel areas.
The photographs on the Lavender were taken early May, 2010, while the butterfly captured on the Buddliea was taken in March, 2011.
The European Painted Lady is a common garden butterfly throughout Albury, and up at least as far as Wagga to the north.
Last June (2010) we noticed this monster growing out of an ironbark eucalypt about 3m off the ground. It’s known as a polypore fungus, Laetiporus portentosus, commonly called White Punk.
Judging from the surveyors staff we used to get a gauge on how far up the tree it was, the fungus would have been about 200mm high, and 200mm wide at the bottom.
It persisted on the tree for the rest of the year, only slowly deteriorating over time.
More information on this fungus and it’s traditional (and not so traditional) uses can be found on Australian Fungi – a Blog.
