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Koonoona. 440 metres above sea level.
Koonoona station leasehold of 14,000 acres was established in 1863 by Walter Duffield, the wealthy flour miller from Gawler and his partner T Porter. Walter Duffield built the classical style mansion called Para Para in Gawler in the 1850s. This was good pastoral country and by 1894 a provisional school opened on Koonoona station. It operated until 1915. Duffield established a prize Merino Stud with the Koonoona Merinos being obtained from the Murrays stud at Mt Crawford and from C B Fisher’s stud at Hill River station near Clare. Their pedigree was strong and the early stud was managed from 1881 by Waldermar Gaskel Hawkes who was born in England in 1863 and arrived in South Australia in 1879. He later became the President of the Stockowners' Association and of the Stud Merino Breeders' Association. When Walter Duffield died in 1882 Hawkes’s son-in-law, Mr Makin took over Koonoona with Walter Duffield’s son. Not long after this time Mr Hawkes became a part owner of Koonoona Merino along with the trustees of the estate of Walter Duffield. Koonoona became one of the most important Merino studs in Australia and was running over 30,000 sheep in 1900. Their rams were sold yearly to the far north of SA, Western Australia, and Queensland. Koonoona won many first prizes for their rams in the Royal Adelaide Show. Koonoona had well-watered valleys, paddocks of lucerne and dryer hilly country. By around 1900 Koonoona consisted of 29,000 acres of freehold land but this was diminished in 1901 when the government bought 3,600 acres for closer settlement. A further 3,000 acres (for 9 farms) was bought by the government in 1907 and 6,700 acres in 1908. Then the government bought a further 8,700 acres in 1909. The last 9,000 acres (36 farms) of Koonoona was purchased by the government for £52,000 in July 1910 and sold for closer settlement. This last section of subdivided land was located near Emu Downs. But Koonoona Stud continued on one of the freehold blocks sold by the government. It was run by the trustees of the estate of Walter Duffield until 1918 when the trustees sold the stud to Waldermar Hawkes. When he retired in 1930 his son Glen took over Koonoona Stud. The comfortable stone homestead was surrounded by large trees and a rose garden. In 1929 the Burra newspaper reported that 70 past and current employees, some third generation employees, gathered at Koonoona to attend a garden party there. Walter Duffield’s two daughters, both in their 80s, sent Christmas presents to be handed out to the children attending. In 1910 when the government had subdivided Koonoona estate, and parts of Anlaby estate, the government began surveys for a railway from Eudunda to Robertstown so that the new farmers at Emu Downs and elsewhere would have a nearby railhead. But the 26 km long railway from Eudunda to Robertstown did not open until 1914. Above a 1908 Koonoona Merino Stud Ram. One of their prize winning rams sold for 150 guineas in 1935. The stud closed down in the 1940s.
Sleepy stud on the beach today. Nice body, not an ounce of flab. Dreaming of something nice, I imagine....
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Silver-studded Blues / plebejus argus. Lindrick Common, South Yorkshire. 21/06/20.
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This image shows the moment a rather worn male Silver-studded Blue located a female. She was one of only two I saw during my visit.
He fluttered down to where she was perched and landed facing her, very close. Immediately she responded and started quivering her wings frantically whilst he stroked her antenna. This then induced her to open and raise the tip of her abdomen to an almost vertical position. I was hopeful of seeing them mate and catching some images, but their actions stopped abruptly when a Dark Green Fritillary dashed past. It spooked them sufficiently to make them fly off in different directions!
My image was a grab shot, but if viewed larger you can just make out the male’s left antenna moving over the top of the female’s. Also, check out her elevated abdomen. Such a pity they were disturbed ...
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Mating Silver-studded Blues (Plebejus argus). Blueish male on the left, brownish female to the right.
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Female Silver-studded Blue butterfly (Plebejus argus), Ssp "caernensis". Feeding on her favoured Bird's foot Trefoil. Ramsley Moor, Derbyshire Peak District.
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I think this is unusual for a Silver-studded Blue because it has some white around the hindwing spots. Most have a variable dark wing border that sometimes engulfs the hindwing spots but this has almost no dark border making it look superficially like a Common Blue.
Silver-studded Blues are commonest on southern heathlands around the New Forest and Thames Basin. Beyond that they are decidedly localised, though often common where they do occur. They are noticeably smaller than Common Blues, with a more leaden blue colouration, with a row of black studs around the hindwing margin. Its caterpillars feed on a variety of plants including gorse, heather and rock-rose, but they also have a relationship with black ants of the genus Lasius. Ants carry the young larvae into their nests where they tend and protect them, presumably for the sugary solutions they exude. But it is not known whether they actually feed on ant larvae (like Large Blues do), but at night the caterpillars emerge from the ants' nests to feed on vegetation. Female Silver-studded Blues selectively lay eggs on vegetation close to Black Ant nests.
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