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These are step-by-step examples of
some of the tasks that Victorian Butterflies and their
Food Plants is designed to perform.
Tutorial
1 (PDF 1.6 Mb)
Find a photograph and description of the butterfly
Graphium macleayanum, and plot one or more maps showing its distribution across Victoria.
Using the Victorian Butterflies program, find
Graphium macleayanum in the full species list (enter the abbreviation grap mac in the search box)
Examine the photographs, description and common name of the species
Print a copy of a photograph and written description of the species.
Plot the distribution of the species on a map of Victoria showing dates for the most recent record for each site
Change the background map so that the distribution is plotted on Topography
Repeat for the Rainfall map theme
Print or export a copy of each map.
The products of this task should be:
A printed page, with a written description and photograph of Graphium
macleayanum.
A printed page (or exported Windows Metafile) of the distribution Graphium macleayanum superimposed on a map of Victoria showing coloured grids which represent the most recent recording dates.
Printed pages of the distribution of Graphium macleayanum superimposed on Topographic and Rainfall maps of Victoria.
Tutorial 2 (PDF 1.4 Mb)
Find all butterfly species that have been recorded in the Healesville area, north-east of Melbourne.
Using the Victorian Butterflies program, find Healesville on a map of Victoria.
Zoom in on the Healesville area
Select the grids which encompass the town and immediate surrounds of Healesville
Generate a list of all butterfly species which have been recorded from this area
Export the list in alphabetic order of scientific name
Export the list in systematic order
The products of this task should be:
A rich text file - suitable for exporting to a word-processor which contains all butterfly species from the search area in alphabetic order of scientific name.
A Rich Text file which contains the same list in systematic order (i.e. in order of butterfly families)
Tutorial 3 (PDF 1.3 Mb)
Find all rare or threatened butterfly species that have been recorded in the Grampians National Park in western Victoria.
Using the Victorian Butterflies program, find the
Grampians National Park on the Parks and Public Land map of Victoria.
Zoom in on the park
Select the grids which completely encompass park
Generate a list of all butterfly species which have been recorded from this area
Filter the list so that it contains only those species categorized as rare or threatened in Victoria.
Export the list as a rich text file
The products of this task should be:
A Rich Text file - suitable for exporting to a word-processor which contains all rare or threatened butterfly species from the search area in alphabetic order of scientific name.
Tutorial 4 (PDF 1.4 Mb)
You are on the outskirts of Mildura, in north-western Victoria, and you see a brightly-coloured butterfly with a wingspan of about 4 cm. The upper wings of the butterfly are pale metallic blue with broad, brown borders and large yellow patches. Identify the butterfly.
Using the Victorian Butterflies program, find
Mildura on a map of Victoria.
Zoom in on the Mildura area.
Select the grids which encompass the town and its immediate surrounds.
Generate a list of all butterfly species which have been recorded from this area
Filter the list so that it contains only those species which have upper wing colours of blue, brown, yellow and a wingspan of about 40 mm.
Examine the results and check the images and description against the butterfly seen in the field
Print the picture and descriptive text.
The products of this task should be:
A list containing a single species of butterfly Ogyris genoveva and a photograph which shows that the female
fulfils the filters criteria (the male is mainly blue).
A printout of a description and photograph of the butterfly
Tutorial 5 (PDF 0.8 Mb)
As an extension of the task in Tutorial 4 find the range of food plants used by all species of Ogyris (the Azure butterflies) in Victoria.
Using the Victorian Butterfly Food Plants program view a list of all caterpillar food plant species in Victoria.
Use the Full Filters option of the program and set the filter parameters so that the it will search for all plant species that are utilised by any species of
Ogyris.
Apply the filters
The products of this task should be:
A list containing all plants used by species of Ogyris.
You should notice that all of the plants are parasites and all but two of them are mistletoes.
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