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Gallery

Catalog Fringed Heath-blue Gallery

Adults

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Photography by L. Hunt

Male

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Females

Food Host

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Yellow flowering bushes of Eutaxia microphylla var. microphylla
that are about 0.5 m high

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Closeup of flowers of Eutaxia microphylla var. microphylla
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Pultenaea largiflorens, a hostplant in the Adelaide Hills

Eggs

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The unusual egg of Neolucia agricola, which is shaped like a cog-wheel

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Larva emerging from egg
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Closeup of egg

Larvae

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First instar larva

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Photography by R. Fisher
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Photography by R. Fisher

Mature larvae

All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.