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    1. Butterflies use chemicals to attract ants to babysit and protect their larvae from parasites. 2. The common frog lays its eggs in groups of 100-150 in shallow water near rocks and vegetation. 3. Ants called slave-makers abduct larvae from other ants' nests to grow up and work for their captors.

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    1. Butterflies use chemicals to attract ants to babysit and protect their larvae from parasites. 2. The common frog lays its eggs in groups of 100-150 in shallow water near rocks and vegetation. 3. Ants called slave-makers abduct larvae from other ants' nests to grow up and work for their captors.

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    1. Butterflies use chemicals to attract ants to babysit and protect their larvae from parasites. 2. The common frog lays its eggs in groups of 100-150 in shallow water near rocks and vegetation. 3. Ants called slave-makers abduct larvae from other ants' nests to grow up and work for their captors.

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    1. Butterflies use chemicals to attract ants to babysit and protect their larvae from parasites. 2. The common frog lays its eggs in groups of 100-150 in shallow water near rocks and vegetation. 3. Ants called slave-makers abduct larvae from other ants' nests to grow up and work for their captors.

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    DID YOU KNOW?

    Flora and Fauna of Deep Creek Butterflies use ants to be babysitters.


    They can attract the ants using their own

    Conservation Park chemicals. The ants carry the butterfly


    babies back to the nest and will protect
    them from parasites.
    Birds Butterflies
    The Laughing Kookaburra,
    derived from the
    The common Frog
    The common frog can be found hiding beneath rocks,
    Wiradjuri Aborigine
    vegetation and debris on the water’s edge. They lay their
    word guuguubarra which
    eggs in groups of 100-150 in shallow water.
    means laugh-like call, is
    the best-known
    Australian bird. The
    Laughing Kookaburra
    The common brown butterfly ranges in
    feeds off the ground and
    colours of brown, orange and yellow patches.
    is easily spotted feeding
    The distinctive eye-spot on each wing can be
    high in the trees.
    seen on both male and female butterflies.
    Although common, after mating occurs from
    October to December, the males dies and
    The Superb Fairy-wren DID YOU KNOW?
    then after the female lays eggs, the female
    can be easily spotted as
    dies. The caterpillars take 12 days to hatch
    they prefer a clear and Ants abduct the larvae from
    from their eggs, and the lifecycle of the
    open habitat. The vivid other ants’ nests. These larvae
    butterfly begins.
    blue on the face and
    grow up to work for
    chest make the male bird The Common Brushtail Possums have silver
    easy to identify. Early in and grey colourings with a dark brown and their captors.
    the morning, the males black bushy tail. The nocturnal marsupial
    sing their territorial song
    These ants are
    are the size of a cat and live for 10-12 years
    called ‘furgling’ to interest in the wild. When hearing hissing or called slave-makers!
    their female counterparts. growling like sounds, it often means the
    possums are mating or protecting
    themselves from predators.
    SMELL THIS! FLORA AND FAUNA CROSSWORD PUZZLE

    Throughout the next 3 days, I am going to tell you a bit about the
    Flora and Fauna of the Deep Creek Conservation Park! This
    Brushtail possums feed
    information will help you answer the crossword. Once completed
    off the Mistletoe with the aim of
    the cross word, a clue will be revealed to help you find the mystery
    pruning the plant. The plant is a
    word. A prize will be awarded to the winning group. Good luck!
    native parasite, so the possums help
    control this parasite.

    A FUN THING TO DO

    Take a morning stroll around the Cobbler Hill


    Picnic Area and see if you can find the tallest
    flower stalk of the Grass Trees and keep an
    eye out for Common Brown Butterflies.

    References:

    Deep Creek Conservation Park (2019). Education


    Pack. Retrieved from
    https://www.naturalresources.sa.gov.au/adelaidemtlo Across Down
    40 things to do in Deep Creek Conservation ftyranges/land/our-parks/schools-in-parks/deep-
    Park. (2019). Retrieved from 1. Abducted ants 1. Indigenous for ‘laugh-like call’
    creek-conservation-park-education-pack
    https://natureplaysa.org.au/wp- 2. Coloured Butterfly 2. Male mating song
    content/uploads/2017/07/NPSA-Deep-Creek- Birds SA. (2019). Birding in SA. The South Australian 3. Species that live and interact 3. Grows from a grass tree
    Ornithological Association. Retrieved from closely with each other
    Online-Version.pdf
    https://birdssa.asn.au/go-birding/birding-sa/
    Plants of a stringybark Forest. (2019). Retrieved
    Climate Watch. (2019). Common Brown Butterfly.
    from Retrieved from
    file:///C:/Users/caitl/Downloads/stringybark- http://www.climatewatch.org.au/species/insects/com
    shrub-layer-identification-fact.pdf mon-brown-butterfly
    Common Brushtail Possum. (2019). Retrieved
    from file:///C:/Users/caitl/Downloads/common-
    brushtail-possum-bio-region-fact.pdf

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