Yellow Admiral Vanessa itea
Wingspan: 50mm
Sighted at Claire Cottage: All year
Distribution: Wide spread - Southern central NT, central & south eastern QLD, most of NSW, all of VIC, southern SA, most of Tasmania and western southern and western central WA.
Status Claire Cottage: common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be common
NOTE: Similar species: There are none.
Wingspan: 50mm
Sighted at Claire Cottage: All year
Distribution: Wide spread - Southern central NT, central & south eastern QLD, most of NSW, all of VIC, southern SA, most of Tasmania and western southern and western central WA.
Status Claire Cottage: common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be common
NOTE: Similar species: There are none.
Yellow Admiral showing its beautiful colours
Yellow Admiral underside
These fast flyers do enjoy the sun
A different view of a newly hatched butterfly
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Yellow Admiral caterpillar near webbed shelter
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Newly hatched - indoors early May
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Yellow Admiral caterpillar pre-pupation
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Yellow Admiral chrysalis looking like dead leaves
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And one gold like a Christmas decoration
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An Admiral hatched from caterpillars rescued a nettle prune
Yellow Admiral Vanessa itea
Wingspan: 50mm
Sighted at Claire Cottage: All year
Distribution: Wide spread - Southern central NT, central & south eastern QLD, most of NSW, all of VIC, southern SA, most of Tasmania and western southern and western central WA.
Status Claire Cottage: common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be common
NOTE: Similar species: There are none.
Butterfly Sightings:
Larva Sightings:
Larval Food Plants:
Habitat where found at Claire Cottage: Garden Zone and Rainforest edge.
Thought to be breeding at Claire Cottage: Yes
Flight habit: Throughout the day.
First warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: N/A - has been seen every month of the year.
Last warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: N/A - has been seen every month of the year.
Interesting Observations: This beautiful butterfly is a regularly sighted on our property flying around our several patches of Stinging Nettles. It frequently settles in patches of sunlight.
The Stinging Nettles flourish around our compost and mulch bays - literally a pain trying to fill a bucket of compost! By the way, Carol makes a nourishing soup in the winter from the nettle leaves which are packed full of minerals and have a long list of health benefits.
The Yellow Admiral is a strong and fast flyer and often only the flash of white on its wings lets you recognise who it is flying by.
The caterpillars, when young, curl and web leaves to hide in and only when in their final instars do they sit openly on their food plant.
Wingspan: 50mm
Sighted at Claire Cottage: All year
Distribution: Wide spread - Southern central NT, central & south eastern QLD, most of NSW, all of VIC, southern SA, most of Tasmania and western southern and western central WA.
Status Claire Cottage: common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be common
NOTE: Similar species: There are none.
Butterfly Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: Aug 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, Sep 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, Oct 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, Nov 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, Dec 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, Jan 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, Feb 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, Mar 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, Apr 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, May 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, Jun 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, Jul 2006, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018,
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: None to date
Larva Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: Aug 2019, Sep 2019, and on numerous other unrecorded occassions.
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: None to date
Larval Food Plants:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: URTICACEAE Pipturis argenteus (False Stinger), Urtica incisa (Stinging Nettle), *Urtica urens (Small Nettle),
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: (as for Claire Cottage)
- ELSEWHERE: URTICACEAE Australina pusilla (Small Shade Nettle), *Laportea interrupta (Hawaii Woodnettle)
Parietaria debilis (Native Pellitory), Parietaria debilis (Native Pellitory), *Parietaria judaica (Pellitory, Asthma Weed), *Soleirolia soleirolii (Baby's tears)
Habitat where found at Claire Cottage: Garden Zone and Rainforest edge.
Thought to be breeding at Claire Cottage: Yes
Flight habit: Throughout the day.
First warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: N/A - has been seen every month of the year.
Last warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: N/A - has been seen every month of the year.
Interesting Observations: This beautiful butterfly is a regularly sighted on our property flying around our several patches of Stinging Nettles. It frequently settles in patches of sunlight.
The Stinging Nettles flourish around our compost and mulch bays - literally a pain trying to fill a bucket of compost! By the way, Carol makes a nourishing soup in the winter from the nettle leaves which are packed full of minerals and have a long list of health benefits.
The Yellow Admiral is a strong and fast flyer and often only the flash of white on its wings lets you recognise who it is flying by.
The caterpillars, when young, curl and web leaves to hide in and only when in their final instars do they sit openly on their food plant.
