Common Grass Blue Zizina otis
Wingspan: 20 mm - 23 mm
Sighted: All months of the year.
Larval Food Plants: Young leaves, flower buds, flowers and seedpods of Cullen and a wide range of mostly prostrate members of the Fabaceae (Pea) family including clover.
Wingspan: 20 mm - 23 mm
Sighted: All months of the year.
Larval Food Plants: Young leaves, flower buds, flowers and seedpods of Cullen and a wide range of mostly prostrate members of the Fabaceae (Pea) family including clover.
Female Common Grass-blue
Male Grass Blue, Claire Cottage Dorrigo, 24 Apr 2020
One of the most commonly seen butterflies although they are fairly small and insignificant looking. The sun brings out the blue on the males' wings but the females have far less blue and often appear plain brown.
We have seen so many of these butterflies on patches of clover at Griffiths Lookout that we feared treading on them.
Larvae occasionally attended by ants.
We have seen so many of these butterflies on patches of clover at Griffiths Lookout that we feared treading on them.
Larvae occasionally attended by ants.
Claire Cottage, Dorrigo Plateau, 27 Jan 2019
Common Grass-blue - in the sun their undersides look lighter
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Common Grass-blue underside clearly showing the markings
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Resting after rain wings tightly folded
Common Grass-blue
Common Grass-blue feeding on a Scaly Button
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See its tongue dipping into the Scaly Button flower
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Common Grass-blue larva feeding on a bean in the vegetable garden
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This larva (with attendant ant) is feeding on Cullen tenax. It was sharing the plant with Chequered Swallowtail larvae
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Larva feeding on Cullen tenax 20 Mar 2019
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Pre-pupa 25 Mar 2019
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Pupa 25 Mar 2019
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Pupa 4 Mar 2019
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Pupa 9 Apr 2019
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Day of hatching 10 Apr 2019
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The butterfly that hatched from the above pupa 10 Apr 2019
Jan 2008, 8.30 am
