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Adelaide residents are being treated to a kaleidoscope of Caper white butterflies, as the critters make their annual journey down from Central Australia. This year's migration is something special with bigger numbers than usual creating spectacles across the city.

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00:03Fairytale scenes in the gardens of Adelaide.
00:05Look, it's fair to say that it is the year of the bug this year.
00:10The insects and invertebrates are having a very good time.
00:14Consistent heavy rainfall in central Australia,
00:17allowing the caper-white butterfly's outback habitat to flourish.
00:21There's been a lot of opportunity for them to breed up several generations of numbers.
00:26Caper butterflies live for a few weeks as adults,
00:28which means the ones you're seeing in your backyard around your caper bushes like this
00:33aren't the same ones that started the migration.
00:36It actually took them about four or five generations to get here.
00:39When the weather cools down in Adelaide, they'll head back north.
00:43It seems to be the first year that we're getting the males and the females,
00:46so they're mating on the bush,
00:48which is something that I haven't actually noticed previously.
00:51And while the caper-white butterflies are here,
00:53keen gardeners don't have to worry about them eating their veggies.
00:56The butterflies drink nectar, and the caterpillars only eat caper bushes.
01:01They will track them down, and they are such a hardy plant.
01:06You really don't need much experience to look after them.
01:10A chance to create your own butterfly oasis.
01:15If you look after them on earth.
01:15If you look after them, you want to get the tiny little meters off,
01:19you can go with a good detail of them eating a little hunger.
01:19You can learn that it is not that it was about for those.
01:19You can see it.
01:19You can see it.
01:19It would be the same as it was a bad idea of the mare.
01:19It is a bad idea to be the same as it gets decided.

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