To start off the New Year here is a recent photo of some Imperial Blue butterflies emerging from their chrysalids. These butterflies aren't particularly rare where they occur, but to see them as they emerged, fresh and new was very special. These butterflies not only prefer a particular type of wattle tree, they only pupate on selected trees of the species. There were quite a few trees where I found these emerging butterflies, but there were chrysalids on only one or two. The Chrysalids are attended by a particular species of ant, so it may be that those ants only visited these few trees.
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