Stratford Butterfly House

[millerd]

With the sunshine not where I was on Saturday last, I ended up with the boys in Stratford-upon-Avon by dint of an incredibly cheap train ticket from Coventry. It was chilly and grey and we ended up in the warmth of the Butterfly House, where there were several species I had never seen before in these places.

I would welcome IDs for all those below, which incidentally were far from all the species that were flying.

No.1

No.2: Like a midnight sky strewn with stars - very attractive

No.3

No.4

No.5

No.6

No.7 The colour varied with the angle to the light between iridescent green and blue

No.8

No.9

Lots of Owl Butterflies and No.10

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Dave

[Padfield]

Hi Dave,

I'm not sure about no. 4 but for the others, you have:

1 Danaus genutia (female)
2 Hamadryas laodamia (male)
3 Myscelia ethusa (male)
4
5 Biblis hyperia
6 Eumaeus toxea
7 Myscelia ethusa (female)
8 Morpho polyphemus
9 Anartia amathea
10 Siproeta stelenes

Sorry to answer in haste, just with the Latin names - we're an hour later here and I'm up at the crack of dawn tomorrow!

Guy

[Mark Colvin]

Hi Dave,

I'll fill the gap for you.

4. Rusty-tipped Page or Brown Siproeta (Siproeta epaphus)

Good hunting.

Kind regards. Mark

[Wurzel]

Great shots Dave And a big help to me as I had a "No 7" from Bristol Zoo and I couldn't work our why it didn't look like the majority of the images for ethusa on Google etc - but now I know that it's the female

Have a goodun

Wurzel

[millerd]

Many thanks to Guy and Mark for the IDs of this selection of exotica. I will now try and track down where they all actually come from...

Dave