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Native Butterflies of the Mornington Peninsula & their Food 

Butterflies are an exciting addition to a garden and its easy to make your garden host to one of natures most fascinating life cycles.
Adult butterflies will feed on most plants with a nectar supply, but for extra encouragement of certain species check out the list below.

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1 https://australianbutterflies.com/chequered-swallowtail/

Chequered Swallowtail- Papilio demoleus

Banks' Brown - Heteronympha banksii banksii 
Common Brown - Heteronympha merope merope 
Spotted Brown - Heteronympha paradelpha 
Shouldered Brown - Heteronympha penelope penelope 

Danthonia caespitosa - Common Wallaby Grass
Themeda australia - Kangaroo Grass
Poa labillardieri - Tussock Grass
Microleana stipoides - Weeping Grass 
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Common Grass Blue - Zizina labradus labradus

Indigoferia australis - Austral indigo 
Kennedia prostrata - Running postman 

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4 http://www.floraforfauna.com.au/planner/animal_detail.asp?id=36

 Common Imperial Blue - Jalmenus evagoras

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Dingy Swallowtail - Papilio anactus

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​Orchard Swallowtail - Papilio aegus aegus 

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Australian Painted Lady - Vanessa kershawi

Striped Xenica - Oreixenica kershawi kershawi
Silver Xenica -
Oreixenica lathoniella herceus 

Danthonia caespitosa - Common Wallaby Grass
Themeda australia - Kangaroo Grass
Poa labillardieri - Tussock Grass
Microleana stipoides - Weeping Grass 

Native Flowering Plants

Banksia marginato - Silver Banksia
Leptospermum continentale - Prickly Tea-tree
Bursaria spinosa - Sweet Bursaria
Leptospermum laevigatum - Coastal tea tree
Leptospermum lanigerum - Woolly Tea-tree
Melaleuca ericifolia - Swamp Paperbark
Gahnia siberiana - Red-fruit saw-edge
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