Thank you for answers everyone — you've convinced me that they are stamens!
Bob.
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- Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:22 am
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: Latest must-have gear for Small Skippers
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- Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:31 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: Latest must-have gear for Small Skippers
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Re: Latest must-have gear for Small Skippers
Hi Lee.
That was my first thought, but they are on there so symetrically I just wanted to see if there was any other logical explanation. The proboscis would have had to have gone underneath the stamens for them to end up on top.
Thanks for your interest.
That was my first thought, but they are on there so symetrically I just wanted to see if there was any other logical explanation. The proboscis would have had to have gone underneath the stamens for them to end up on top.
Thanks for your interest.
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:39 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: Latest must-have gear for Small Skippers
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Latest must-have gear for Small Skippers
Viewing on my computer the pictures I had taken on my transect in Bishop's Stortford Southern Country Park on Monday, I came across this Small Skipper with what looks like a pair of extra antennae on its proboscis. Anyone come across this sort of aberration before? Or have an explanation for it? Sma...