Is the Ulysses butterfly Australian?

The Ulysses butterfly is found in most tropical rainforest areas such as Northern Queensland, Northern islands of Australia and Papua New Guinea and lives below the rainforest canopy.

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What is Australia's biggest butterfly?

The Cairns Birdwing (Ornithoptera priamus) is the largest butterfly in Australia with a wingspan of over 16cm.

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What are rare Australian butterflies?

The purple copper butterfly is one of Australia's rarest butterfly species and is only found in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Its habitat is restricted to elevations above 900 metres. The purple copper butterfly feeds only on a subspecies of blackthorn (Bursaria spinosa subspecies lasiophylla).

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What is the rarest butterfly on earth?

They are the bay checkerspot, Fender's blue, crystal skipper, the Miami blue, Saint Francis' satyr, and the rarest butterfly in the world, the Schaus swallowtail, whose habitat is sadly found in the sprawling metropolis of Miami. Of all six species together, only about 3,000 remain.

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What is the rarest butterfly to find?

The island marble butterfly is one of the rarest butterflies in North America.

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Blue Butterfly in Cairns Queensland Australia - Papilio ulysses, Ulysses blue butterfly

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What is Australia's rarest bird?

"The regent honeyeater used to flock in its thousands from Queensland to South Australia, but now there are only around 300 birds left in the wild," Mr Griffin said. "We're releasing conservation-bred birds to boost numbers in the wild as part of a national effort to save this critically endangered species.

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What is the world's prettiest butterfly?

The blue morpho is known all over the world to be one of the world's most beautiful butterflies, and that's because of its bright blue color on the upperside of its wings. The underside of the blue morpho's wings looks different with a brown color and eyespots.

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Which Australian butterflies are endangered?

The Australian Fritillary is the most imperilled butterfly in Australia. Without new conservation action it was assessed as having a 95% likelihood of extinction within 20 years. The major problem facing the Fritillary is habitat loss as swamps have been drained for farming and urbanisation.

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What is the largest bug in Australia?

Shield-backed katydid (Siliquofera sp.) Growing to 13cm, the largest in Australia and one of the largest in the world. A wingspan of up to 8cm. A wingspan up to 15cm.

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What is the smallest butterfly in Australia?

Dainty Swallowtail Butterflies are the smallest swallowtail butterflies in Australia.

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What is the heaviest flying bird in Australia?

Provides the first complete overview of the biology of the Australian bustard, Australia's heaviest flying bird.

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What birds are only native to Australia?

Species endemic to eastern Australia
  • Black-breasted buttonquail.
  • Albert's lyrebird.
  • Rufous scrub-bird.
  • Eastern bristlebird.
  • Pilotbird.
  • Rockwarbler.
  • Green catbird.
  • Regent bowerbird.

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Which Australian animal is on the Australian Made logo?

Changes to 'Australian Made' logo

Australia's beloved kangaroo logo many look for when buying local products is here to stay, despite wide-spread confusion it is being replaced. A new design, inspired by the country's national flower, will now be used by business, industry and government, alongside the kangaroo.

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What is the Aboriginal name for butterfly?

Bindi: Known to many Australians as the prickly weed lurking in wait for bare feet on grass, the word Bindi-Bindi is the Noongar name for 'butterfly'.

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What is the rarest color of butterfly?

Blue is the rarest occurring colour in nature, with no true blue pigments in plants. In some ways, blue butterflies are natures way of completing the colour spectrum.

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What is the weirdest butterfly?

  • Dead Leaf butterfly.
  • Emerald Swallowtail.
  • Glasswinged Butterfly.
  • 88 Butterfly.
  • Forest Giant Owl Butterfly.

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Is the purple butterfly real?

The Purple Emperor is a large butterfly whose males have areas of iridescent purple on their wings. The larger females do not have this iridescence, which is how the sexes can be told apart.

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What is Australia's most unique animal?

The Tasmanian Devil is a marsupial that only lives - the name says it all - on the island of Tasmania. It is one of Australia's most unique and endangered species.

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What is Australia's smallest bird?

Weebills are the smallest birds in Australia, and as the name suggests, they also have very small beaks. They are mostly light brown with darker brown wing tips and pale or yellowish underparts. Weebills live in woodland habitats and feed on small insects.

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What is the number 1 rarest bird in the world?

Overview: Perhaps the world's rarest bird, only one Stresemann's Bristlefront is known to survive in the wild. Unfortunately, this bird is confined to one of the most fragmented and degraded – and vulnerable – forests in the Americas.

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Do all butterflies have 12 000 eyes?

Monarch butterflies also known as the king of butterflies possess 12000 eyes, which helps them to see in all directions. These butterflies possess two kinds of eyes, that is, compound and simple.

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What is the oldest butterfly ever?

Butterflies have been recorded in fossils dating back to the mid-Eocene epoch, around 40-50 million years ago, although their origin is thought to be earlier. Lithopsyche is about 34 million years old, 'so it's an old flapper,' says Claire.

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What is the oldest butterfly in the world?

Now researchers in the Netherlands have discovered Lepidoptera fossils that are older than any previously found, proving these familiar insects have been around for at least 200m years.

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