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Butterfly Recognition.
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 11:01 am
by Brian Brown
Hello. Could anyone please tell what the attached butterfly is?
https://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/~ukbutt ... &id=240869
Re: Butterfly Recognition.
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 11:03 am
by David M
Red Admiral, Brian.
Re: Butterfly Recognition.
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:53 am
by Brian Brown
Hello David. Thanks for the reply. I am puzzled because all the books I have show the attached picture which appears different. Do you suppose the butterfly in my original post appeared different because the wings were not fully open?
Re: Butterfly Recognition.
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:04 am
by David M
Yes. The hindwings were not visible in your images as the butterfly had lowered its forewings over them, thus you couldn't see the broad, red marginal band on the lower wings.
Re: Butterfly Recognition.
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:15 am
by Brian Brown
Many thanks David. I think I was too hasty. I should have thought of that before. Brian.
Re: Butterfly Recognition.
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 1:45 pm
by millerd
Hi Brian - it's probably worth mentioning that a lot of older books showing "pinned" specimens from the days of collecting butterflies give rather unrealistic images for establishing an ID in the field. Photographs of live insects (as found in abundance on the UK Butterflies species pages for example
) provide a much better guide to identifying what you may see in the wild.
Cheers,
Dave