Geutrude Petty Place Buscare site is alive with butterflies at the moment. The work Sue and the team have done removing weeds and planting native grasses and shrubs is really paying off with the rain we have been getting this summer. With the weeds removed natural regeneration means a large number of different native grasses and sedges have returned a critical success factor for bringing back the butterflies.
I photographed two new butterflies this morning which have not previously been recorded on Mt Grava
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A Spotted Sedge-skipper – Hesperilla ornata posed on some native Barbed Wire grass. Saw Sedge which is indigenous to the Reserve, is the laval food plant for the Spotted Sedge-skipper. With natural regeneration bringing back the native sedges we can expect to see more of these beautiful butterflies on Mt Gravatt in the future. This is particularly important because these butterflies are classed as “uncommon” in Braby’s Butterflies of Australia. 
I also found this male White-banded Plane – Phaedyma shepherdi.
At 55mm these are quite a large butterfly for Brisbane. The patterns on the wings identify this specimen as a male.
I also found Splendid Ochre – Trapezites symmomus and Small Dusky-blue – Candalides erinus butterflies.
Mike
Mount Gravatt Environment Group 
March 6, 2010 at 12:20 am
Hi Mike – are you certain this is Hesperilla picta?? If so this is a seriously significant record for suburban southern Brisbane suburbs. I am aware of some H.picta specimens (reliably)recorded from “Tingalpa Creek” about late 1990s but never anywhere else this close to BNE. On the other hand H. ornata is well-known, albeit rare and found all over BNE bushland areas which would tie in with the very bright white/ creme underside. Yours may be a female – cannot see the gender-brand. H. picta has a very much maroon background colour on the ventral which is not in view in your shot; do you recall what the under was like – maroon or black? Nice snap I must say.
March 13, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Thanks the information … I checked again you are correct it is a Hesperilla ornata … I have corrected the blog and also updated our Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Reserve.
Mike