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Need an ID for this Butterlfy

  • 02-08-2006 11:08am
    #1
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭


    http://static.flickr.com/64/204706220_121fe7de3b.jpg

    Was in bog land, feeding on nectar from a blackberry bush and was two and a half inches from wing tip to wing tip.
    And if it's a red admiral I'll go nuts for not identifying it myself ;)
    Cheers all.


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  • #2
    Vireo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭Vireo


    It's a Peacock butterfly. Nice shot too!


  • #3
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    Yaaaaaaaaa, go me :D
    Cheers Vireo, I actually didn't know that was what it was called at all. I had just assumed I knew what it was called and had simply forgotten as I hadn't seen one in a while.
    I stuck the original one up Here.
    If you click all sizes (you might have to have an account to see the full size,tis free though) you should be able to see a lot more detail.
    Thanks once more!


  • #4
    LisaO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭LisaO


    It's a Peacock butterfly.

    One of my favourites. Buddleia in our garden was smothered in them yesterday & red admirals and tortoiseshells too, plus a few cabbage whites. Had never seen so many butterflies at the one time!


  • #5
    boneless
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    There appears to be more butterflys than usual this year. Or is this just my imagination?


  • #6
    snorlax
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    could it be the dry weather?


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  • #7
    boneless
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    snorlax wrote:
    could it be the dry weather?


    Could be.. but it's more than likely the fact (when I think about it) that I'm working outdoors for the first time in years :)


  • #8
    snorlax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    i'm seeing loads of the cabbage white butterflies around my garden and saw a tiny little blue one too.


  • #9
    artieanna
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    just had to say Thats a beaut picture
    I must keep eye out for a peacock butterfly (don't know names of any, just would know a strange one if i saw one).

    artieanna


  • #10
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I thought they were called Vanessas...
    :confused:


  • #11
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    Cheers Artieanna,
    I got a few more bugs and things over the last few weeks, having trouble identifying some of them, they're all up here on the front page of my Flickr
    Clicky Here for buggy goodness :)


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  • #12
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    New Home wrote:
    I thought they were called Vanessas...
    :confused:
    The latin name for some species of butterfly begins with Vanessa, as in the Red Admiral is the Vanessa Atalanta.


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