Daily Quiz
- Pete Eeles
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Daily Quiz
Game for a laugh? Thought I'd ask relatively-random questions about our butterfly fauna. First correct answer results in a new question.
So - what is unique about the Green Hairstreak?
Cheers,
- Pete
So - what is unique about the Green Hairstreak?
Cheers,
- Pete
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Re: What is unique about ... ?
Our only "Green" winged butterfly?
Fingers crossed!!
Cheers
Colin
Fingers crossed!!
Cheers
Colin
Re: What is unique about ... ?
Only butterfly to produce a genuine green pigment? all the others (eg. OT, GVW) just appear green but are actually yellow and black when viewed closely??
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Re: Daily Quiz
Chris is correct (Colin is close, but not close enough) ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Q: How can you conclusively tell a Berger's Clouded Yellow from a Pale Clouded Yellow (that doesn't involve DNA testing!)?
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Q: How can you conclusively tell a Berger's Clouded Yellow from a Pale Clouded Yellow (that doesn't involve DNA testing!)?
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Re: Daily Quiz
Bright orange discoidal spot for Berger's, pale orage for PCY, easily seperated in laval stage.
Martin.
Martin.
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Re: Daily Quiz
Yes - the answer I was looking for was the different larval stages - well done.
Q: So what's a definitive way of separating male and female Duke of Burgundy?
The first correct respondee gets to ask the next question![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Q: So what's a definitive way of separating male and female Duke of Burgundy?
The first correct respondee gets to ask the next question
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Re: Daily Quiz
Not the answer I was looking for ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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Correct!
Right - your turn to ask a question![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Right - your turn to ask a question
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Re: Daily Quiz
Female has fatter abdomen and lighter markings on wings than male
nevermind - posted it a bit late
nevermind - posted it a bit late
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Re: Daily Quiz
Ok
There are 2 members of the subfamily Dismorphiinae found in the British Isles. What are they?
There are 2 members of the subfamily Dismorphiinae found in the British Isles. What are they?
Regards Lance
Re: Daily Quiz
Wood White & Real's Wood WhiteThere are 2 members of the subfamily Dismorphiinae found in the British Isles. What are they?
Hamearis
Re: Daily Quiz
My turn I guess -
As far as I know, only one British butterfly can survive the winter in two life stages.
Anyone know which it is?
Hamearis
As far as I know, only one British butterfly can survive the winter in two life stages.
Anyone know which it is?
Hamearis
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Speckled wood - pupae or as half-grown larvae. I am correct?
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Re: Daily Quiz
Dave
You are correct.
Your turn.
Jamearis
You are correct.
Your turn.
Jamearis
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Re: Daily Quiz
Hi Pete,
Apologies for my pedantry, but strictly speaking the male Duke of Burgundy does have six legs, it's just that the front pair are 'vestigial' (an evolutionary under-development) and not used for walking. If you look very carefully at the butterfly, you can actually see these tiny structures in rapid motion. This under-development of front walking legs characterises butterfly families (e.g. the nymphalids such as the Red Admiral all appear to have only four legs, whereas the pierids such as the whites clearly have six). The Duke is unique in that it (the only member of its family in the UK) differs between the sexes in this manner.
Neil
Apologies for my pedantry, but strictly speaking the male Duke of Burgundy does have six legs, it's just that the front pair are 'vestigial' (an evolutionary under-development) and not used for walking. If you look very carefully at the butterfly, you can actually see these tiny structures in rapid motion. This under-development of front walking legs characterises butterfly families (e.g. the nymphalids such as the Red Admiral all appear to have only four legs, whereas the pierids such as the whites clearly have six). The Duke is unique in that it (the only member of its family in the UK) differs between the sexes in this manner.
Neil
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Completely agree ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Thx.
Cheers,
- Pete
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Thx.
Cheers,
- Pete
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OK, out of all the blues (in UK, maybe Europe too) which one flies the higest out of them all?
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Re: Daily Quiz
Dave
Do you mean 'highest' as in altitude - ie, highest up the mountain, or 'highest', as in furthest off the ground?
Roger
Do you mean 'highest' as in altitude - ie, highest up the mountain, or 'highest', as in furthest off the ground?
Roger
Cheers
Roger
Roger