The first butterfly I can recall seeing was a Common Australian Crow (Euploea core corinna) during a lesson in Primary school, when the class watched a butterfly emerge from its pupa, pump up its wings and fly.
The school had many oleander shrubs in the grounds and the plant is a favourite food of the caterpillars in suburban areas, which give the butterfly its other common name as the oleander butterfly.
Outside of suburban city areas they range from north Western Australia across to tropical Queensland along the coastal range to South Australia where the caterpillars feed on a wide range of native food plants.
We do not have a lot of sightings of this butterfly on our property and this is the first time I have photographed one.
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