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Gallery

Catalog Common Grass-blue Gallery

Adults

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Photography by R. Fisher

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Males

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Female

Food Host

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Twining glycine (Glycine clandestina)

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Coast Swainson-pea (Swainsona lessertiifolia)

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Australian trefoil (Lotus australis)

Eggs

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Larvae

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First instar larva boring into leaf surface, head on left

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First instar, eating flower petal

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Second instar

Head on left

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Third instar larvae, showing different colour forms,
head on left

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Fourth instar larvae, showing different colour forms,
head on left

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Photography by R. Fisher

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Final instar larvae, showing different colour forms,
head on left

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Final instar larva demolishing a clover leaf

Pupae

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Pupa a few days after pupation,
in this case grey-brown in colour

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Grey-brown pupa has turned brown near the end of its pupation period.

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Photography by L. Hunt

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Different coloured pupae

Green

White

All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.