Common Grass Blue Zizina otis
Wingspan: 20 - 23mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: All months of the year.
Status Claire Cottage: very common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be common
Distribution: Australia wide
Wingspan: 20 - 23mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: All months of the year.
Status Claire Cottage: very common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be common
Distribution: Australia wide
Common Grass Blue Zizina otis
Wingspan: 20 - 23mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: All months of the year.
Status Claire Cottage: very common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: very common
Distribution: Australia wide
Butterfly Sightings:
Larva Sightings:
Larval Food Plants:
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.
Habitat where found at Claire Cottage: Rainforest edge
Thought to be breeding at Claire Cottage: Yes
Flight habit: Throughout the day.
First warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: 04/08/2023
Last warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: ??/??/20??
Wingspan: 20 - 23mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: All months of the year.
Status Claire Cottage: very common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: very common
Distribution: Australia wide
Butterfly Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: (prior to 2023 have been seen at least once in every month of the year since 2001) JAN FEB MAR APR MAY 2023 JUN JUL AUG 2023 SEP OCT NOV DEC
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: Frequently sighted
Larva Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: March 2019
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: None to date
Larval Food Plants:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: FABACEAE: Cullen tenax, Phaseolus vulgaris (Garden Beans, a Legume)*
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: (as for Claire Cottage)
- ELSEWHERE: FABACEAE: - Cullen microcephalum, C.patens, Daviesea brevifolia, Desmodium spp.,Hardenbergia violacea, Indigofera australis, Lotus australis, Pultenaea tenuifolia, Swainsona sp., Trigonella spp., and ten FABACEAE garden vegetables.
- 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.
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.
Habitat where found at Claire Cottage: Rainforest edge
Thought to be breeding at Claire Cottage: Yes
Flight habit: Throughout the day.
First warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: 04/08/2023
Last warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: ??/??/20??