Grasslands II

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Still hot and still humid the grasslands have benefited from all the rain. An explosion of plant life has meant more food for the insects. Insects not only eat the plant leaves, as in the one and only food source for the very picky caterpillars, but they also could be vine chewers or flower petal munchers. The myriad of random stalks; the many stemmed small shrubs and snaking and undulating vines also provide a safe haven for the small insects and a safe platform to attach a cocoon. Now that the grasses have started to dry out, they are providing seeds on the stalk or swirling pools of seeds on the ground for all the winged seed eaters to feast on. Not to mention the winged predators looking for a slow flying insect to feast on.
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Blue Argus Junonia orithya albicincta Caterpillar
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Blue Argus Junonia orithya albicincta Caterpillar
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Blue-banded Eggfly Hypolimnas alimena
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Blue Argus Junonia orithya albicincta cocoon
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Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Lonchura castaneothorax
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Blue Argus Junonia orithya albicincta inside
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Common Grass-blue Zizina labradus outside mating
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Clearwing Swallowtail Cressida Cressida caterpillar

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Cullen badocanum Larva Food for Chequred Swallowtail
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Fruit Piercing Moth Othreis materna caterpillar
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Fruit Piercing Moth Othreis materna caterpillar
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Galah Cacatua roseicapilla

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Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis Juv
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Blue -winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii

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Macroptilium atropurpureum
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Moth Periopta diversa
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Wild Passionfruit Passiflora foetida
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