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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
 Posted - 07/03/2009 : 15:17:56
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I've just been out on my scooter along the garden trail
with my little Miss Pixie.She found a Dead log inhabited
by some little marsupial mice ,with pink inside their ears.
She wants to kill them naturally so I have to steer her in a different direction.
On my way back to the house in a clearing I saw a Ulysses Blue
Butterfly , thats a sight to make you appreciate being alive
http://www.magicoflife.org/butterfly_photos/Papilio_ulysses%20butterfly%20panel.html
I noticed the new Genus name Melicope is listed as the food
tree ,it used to be Euodia .
My tree is planted now to feed the Blue Mountain Butterfly.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
Cooktown
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Val
assistant gardener
Australia
92 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 15:51:47
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Oh that butterfly is so beautiful, Pitta. You are very lucky to live where it lives. I visited a butterfly farm when I was up in Cairns once, that one and the Cairns Birdwing were there in abundance, so gorgeous!
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
 Posted - 07/03/2009 : 15:55:26
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Thats Nature for you Gwen the good and the bad..
Those butterflies are so pretty Gwen, I used to grow that tree in Townsville it had pink flowers in a cluster even seen a blue butterfly or two, would you believe I seen one last week in the back garden here, I dont know which one is was though because it did not give me enough time to have a good look at it, it flew away when I was coming down the back steps..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 18:48:06
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They are a beautiful butterfly, wish we got them here. We see plenty of blue triangles like these ones http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_butters/BlueTriangle.htm they are pretty but nothing like yours.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 19:55:33
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Thats a pretty one too Gail, but not the one I seen it had more blue on it.
Gwen a interesting article so the southern states are going to get some of our Flora & Fauna
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 03:22:34
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| Neat looking butterfly Gwen,how big are they? |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 09:26:04
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How cool is that Gwen, love your little mousie 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 09:59:00
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RICHARD If you could put that blue butterfly in the palm of you hand there
would be very little of your hand left to see.
Everyone living south of Cape York may get all our wildlife in years to come
as the south becomes warmer.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 10:06:16
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 WOW Gwen
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 13:44:44
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 13:56:40
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Cheryl if you'd love to have our butterflies , you also will get all the creepies
and bities you don't like or want.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 13:58:59
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 sorry Gwen getting selective in my old age 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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