Ulysses Butterfly

A large blue butterfly

My illustration for Animal Alphabets, letter #U - Ulysses Butterfly.
The Ulysses Butterfly (Papilio Ulysses) is a large blue butterfly which inhabits tropical rainforests. In Australia the butterfly depends on Euodia trees, where they lay eggs and feed as caterpillars. In the past, the destruction of such trees endangered the species. However the plantation of new pink flowered doughwood trees has increased the number of Ulysses butterflies .
In my illustration an ulysses butterfly is growing a plantation of Euodia, a caterpillar sits on a leaf of a tree. [2017]