Oct 6, 2021
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Fluttering Across Australia
Four butterflies, two stories
In 1871, the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus, Nymphalidae) was recorded in Australia for the first time. A prodigious flier, this American species has spread across the Pacific to South-East Asia, and across the Atlantic to the Azores, Spain, and Morocco. Australian records remained low until about the 1900s. But once the caterpillar host plants — Tropical…
