Blue Triangle butterfly Puddling   Photo: D. Frenkiel

By: Michael Fox

Blue Triangle Graphium sarpedon butterfly Puddling in neighbour’s sandpit.

Butterflies, like all animals, need water. At breeding time, male Blue Triangle butterflies and other swallowtail butterflies will be looking for mineral laden water.

Murrogun Laurel Cryptocarya microneura

Blue Triangle butterfly caterpillars feed on a range of native tree species including Murrogun Laurel Cryptocarya microneura. Murrogun Laurel is also caterpillar food for Bronze Flat Netrocoryne repanda repanda and Common Red-eye or Eastern Dusk-flat Chaetocneme beata butterflies, as well as, fruit eating birds like native pidgeons.