Why did the butterfly fly to the top of the hill?
06 September 2013 , 5:00 PM by Rebecca McLaren
And it seems Queensland is the place to notice the most!
"Australia has more than 400 different kinds of butterflies, but Queensland has more than three-quarters of those.
"Certainly you find that as you're closer to the coast and as you go further north you tend to get more species, so around Cairns you'd find upwards of 200 different kinds just in that region."
Some of Australia's butterflies, a group called 'the blues' have a rather interesting relationship with ants.
"Most butterflies have caterpillars that are herbivores, they just feed on the leaves of plants or flowers or buds, but we have some really weird carnivorous ones.
"They have funny little slug like caterpillars that are quite flattened, and often they have a little organ at the back end that produces sugary secretions so ants quite like them so instead of treating them as a meal they actually look after them because they get these little sugary rewards."