One of natures beauties are butterflies and the Butterfly House near Coffs Harbour has many Australian butterflies.
The short life of a butterfly, the average is about 3 weeks, means that the continual cycle of breeding butterflies is an ongoing program.
This caterpillar was happily munching its way to being a pupa before becoming a butterfly.
Up close to a Ulysses
I visited at the same time as a bus load of children making it a little challenging to take photographs but managed to snap these ones.
Orange Lacewing – with its wings open
Orange Lacewing – with its wings closed
Female Orchard Swallowtail
Ulysses
Male Cairns Birdwing
Female Cairns Birdwing
Lemon Migrant
Male & Female Cruiser
Common Crow
Margaret River & Beyond 
Just beautiful!
A very relaxing place to visit.
Beautiful photos, yet again! We are loving following your travels – The Wednesday Quilters!!
Hello to you all….see you early December.
In Madang in PNG we had Birdwing Butterflies flying free! Amazing sight and thankfully they are protected. Great photos again.
How lucky to see them flying free.
Brilliant photography. Love hearing about your travels x
Glad you are enjoying the trip with us.
Great photos, these are very difficult to get.
Espcially with a bus load of kids all looking at the same butterfly as me.