Dr Suzi Bond Fenner School ANU Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO Environment Statistics ABS Whats the difference between a moth and a butterfly Whats the difference between a moth and a butterfly ID: 809695
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Butterfly fauna of ACT woodlands
Dr Suzi BondFenner School, ANUAustralian National Insect Collection, CSIROEnvironment Statistics, ABS
Slide2What’s the difference between a moth and a butterfly?
Slide3What’s the difference between a moth and a butterfly?
Slide4Life cycle of a butterfly
Slide5ACT Butterfly Research Project
Ongoing monitoring project since 2014 which collects reliable data on adult butterfly presence and abundanceOver 140 survey sites in the ACT across a range of habitats, including lowland, montane and subalpine woodlands.
Slide6Woodland Butterfly Community
Slide7Woodland Butterfly Community
Slide8Woodland Butterfly Community
87 butterfly species recorded in the ACT69 species recorded from woodlands57 species residents or confirmed breeding migrantsOf these 57 species, observations so far on presence, abundance and distribution?How do these observations change over spring-summer-autumn, and between years?
Slide9Woodland Butterfly Community
Slide10Threats and conservation
Habitat destruction and degradationAppropriate hilltop managementRetention and/or addition of key larval food plants and attendant ant colonies
Slide11Small Ant-blue
Significant woodland butterflyRequires substantial Coconut Ant colony (coarse woody debris, eucalypt saplings, mature eucalypts)Little detail known of life cycle