Magnetic Island Nature Care Association
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      • Where Have All the Fish Gone?
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      • How Many New Berths?
      • Big Enough Already!
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      • The $1.64 Billion Quesion: WHY?
      • Contact Clear Water Townsville
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    • Claude's Block
    • 2011 Anti-plastic Bag Campaign
    • 2011 Short Film Competition
    • 2010 Low Carbon Diet Inter-Bay Challenge
    • 2010 'Carbon Cuts' Film Competition
    • 1996 Nelly Bay Habitat Reserve
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MAGNETIC ISLAND
ENVIRONMENTAL
RESOURCE CENTRE

BUTTERFLIES OF MAGNETIC ISLAND

Magnetic Island is famous for butterflies, especially in winter.

Blue tiger Tirumala hamata hamata
Cairns birdwing Ornithoptera euphorion
Chocolate argus Junonia hedonia zelima
Clearwing swallowtail Cressida cressida cressida
Dingy bush-brown Mycalesis perseus perseus
Green-spotted triangle Graphium agamemnon ligatum
New Guinea birdwing Ornithoptera priamus
No-brand grass-yellow Eurema brigitta australis
Pale triangle Graphium eurypylus lycaon
Purple beak Libythea geoffroyi nicevillei
Red-bodied swallowtail Pachliopta polydorus queenslandicus
Papilio aegeus
Ulysses butterfly Papilio ulysses joesa
Yellow palm-dart Cephrenes trichopepla
Spinifex sand-skipper Proeidosa polysema
Suniana sp.
Suniana sunias
Taractrocera sp.
Wandering glider Pantala flavescens
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Cairns birdwing
(Ornithoptera euphorion)

Photo: Australian Butterfly Sanctuary
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Blue tiger
(Tirumala hamata hamata)
Photo: abc.net.au
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Name?

THE ANNUAL MAGNETIC ISLAND PILGRIMAGE OF BLUE TIGER BUTTERFLIES

Every year we are treated to a spectacle on Magnetic Island when we are visited by hundreds, if not thousands of butterflies who come here from all over Queensland for a winter holiday. One of these are the Blue Tiger Butterflies (Tirumala Hamata Hamata). Other common names are Blue Wanderers, or Dark Blue Tiger.

Butterfly Rainforest at Horseshoe Bay

The Blue Blue Tiger Butterflies rest in a hidden forest located just off Horseshoe Bay Road. This enchanting butterfly rainforest is filled with hundreds of thousands of butterflies between April to September particularly in the mid-afternoon. If you're visiting, please treat quietly to not disturb them as they rest.
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Help us build the Magnetic Island Environmental Resource Centre!

If you'd like to contribute content to the Centre simply contact us.

  • Home
  • Donations
  • About
    • History of MINCA
    • Become A Member
    • Renew Your Membership
  • Resources
    • World heritage Values of Magnetic Island
    • Plants of Magnetic Island
    • Weeds of Magnetic Island
    • Favourite Trees
    • Native animals of Magnetic Island
    • Birds of Magnetic Island
    • Butterflies of Magnetic Island
    • Reptiles of Magnetic Island
    • Frogs (Amphians) of Magnetic Island
    • Spiders, Insects & Bugs of Magnetic Island
    • Life in the ocean around Magnetic Island
    • The geology of Magnetic Island
    • Library & Links
  • Projects
    • Caring for the West Point Road
    • Bolger Bay Conservation Park
    • Protection of Radical Bay
    • Townsville Port expansion >
      • Flyer
    • Clear Water Townsville >
      • The Future of Cleveland Bay >
        • Historical Impacts of Silt Pollution
      • The Story So Far
      • Cleveland Bay: Current & Impacts
      • The Impact of Dredging
      • Dolphins, Dugongs & Turtles
      • Where Have All the Fish Gone?
      • Proposed Port Expansion & Master Plan
      • Port of Townsville's Changing Plans
      • How Many New Berths?
      • Big Enough Already!
      • Jobs and the Port
      • The $1.64 Billion Quesion: WHY?
      • Contact Clear Water Townsville
    • Freecycle
  • Achievements
    • Claude's Block
    • 2011 Anti-plastic Bag Campaign
    • 2011 Short Film Competition
    • 2010 Low Carbon Diet Inter-Bay Challenge
    • 2010 'Carbon Cuts' Film Competition
    • 1996 Nelly Bay Habitat Reserve
    • ARCHIVE NEWS
  • Gallery
  • Contact
  • Activities