If you look outside at Glenagra Station, near Kynuna in outback Queensland, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in a butterfly museum exhibit.
The cattle property is cared for by farmsitters Neil and Linda Zoglauer who have been there for six years.
Mr Zoglauer said when spring comes the butterflies do as well.
"I was starting one of the bores up and I just noticed, I saw something flying up from in the grass," he said.
"Some had hatched, there were some hatching, and I thought I'd try to capture what I could of them.
"There was quite a lot on that particular bush — they'd nearly demolished all the leaves on it.
"There probably would have been a couple of bushes there that had them on, probably a few hundred there all up."
A decline in native wildlife
Mr Zoglauer said the property recorded 21mm of rain in a recent event but he was hoping more would fall.
An avid photographer who is rarely seen without his camera, Mr Zoglauer said he had noticed less and less wildlife after years of drought and then the 2019 floods.
"I think there's a lot of native wildlife that has sort of disappeared," he said.
"We used to see quite a few dunnarts around and different monitors but at the moment it's really, really quiet.
"Even the monitors you see now aren't in real good condition, they're really looking for food."
