Orchard Butterflies

The Orchard Butterflies are amazing. They are about 5 inches across and there are masses off them at the moment. They are really beautiful on the bottle brush bushes as they are mostly black and white, the males having a row of orange dots along the bottom of the wings. As they are bigger than the tiny Yellow Rumped Thornbill birds that fly through the garden in teams, it is strange to think that they are butterflies. Another name is the Citrus Butterflies, so I guess that's what their caterpillars eat! And that is why my citrus trees look so nibbled!

Two Blue Tiger Butterflies on the pink bottlebrush

Butterflies

A Confetti of Butterflies!

The butterflies are dancing everywhere around the garden. The shrub are festooned with them and they are all colours and sizes. I am trying to learn their names. I know one is a
' Common Crow ' which is sad. I know it's black and white but it's very pretty and about 4 inches across, or maybe more. You can stand by the bushes and hear their wings flittering (if that's not a word it is now!!) I love standing there with them all dancing around me. My favourite is the Blue Tiger. They look like stain glass and some times there seem to be hundreds of them about the garden.