The Butterfly Effect

摘要

Amid the steamy heat of tropical far north Queensland rainforests, these exquisite insects are netting the devotion of researchers, twitchers, bankers and brides. CAPE YORK Peninsula's Iron Range National Park (NP), which encloses the country's largest wedge of lowland tropical rainforest, is a confounding place to go chasing butterflies. To be sure, the butterfly diversity here, midway between Cairns and New Guinea, far outstrips and outshines that of any other slice of Australia - more than half ofthe country's species occur here, and many nowhere else. But the distractions are no less dazzling.