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Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:15 pm
by Piers
Good guess Denise (the ant association) but I'm afraid it's a different species...
Felix.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:42 pm
by Pete Eeles
Purple Hairstreak.
Cheers,
- Pete
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:55 pm
by Piers
Pete, you're close....
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 8:53 pm
by Martin
It's Green Hairstreak.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:06 pm
by Piers
Martin wrote:It's Green Hairstreak.
Such confidence!
and why not - you're spot on Martin!
Your turn, make it a killer..!
Felix.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:32 pm
by Martin
Which butterflies caterpillers feed exclusivly on Water Dock.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:02 pm
by Dave McCormick
Large coppers Caterpillars
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:19 am
by Martin
Dave McCormick wrote:Large coppers Caterpillars
Great work Dave...over to you.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:16 am
by Dave McCormick
As far as I know there is only one, but which resident species (not migrant) do we have that shares its name with a unrelated Australian butterfly?
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:30 am
by Piers
There is a delias that the Ausies call a Wood White, which is odd 'cos if it's the species that I'm thinking of it's quite brightly coloured... (please correct me if I'm wrong here Dave - this is stretching the limits of my memory!!)
Felix.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:33 am
by Charles Nicol
is it the dingy skipper ( Toxidia peron ) ?
charles
ps there is a splendid ( erm,.. bonzer ) web-site for Australian butterflies...
http://www.purvision.com/butterflies/
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:37 am
by Dave McCormick
not one I was thinking of, keep trying. The DIngy Skipper is not is name, its "large dingy skipper or dingy grass-skipper" so its not it.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:45 am
by Denise
Cabbage White?
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:53 am
by Pete Eeles
I can find 2:
Lucia limbaria : Small Copper
Trapezites argenteoornatus : Silver Spotted Skipper
Cheers,
- Pete
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:15 am
by Dave McCormick
Lucia limbaria- It is also known as the "Grassland Copper" and thats not the one I thought about.
Trapezites argenteoornatus - Silver spotted skipper (I'll give you that Pete)
The answer I had was Delias aganippe, "Wood White" it looks nothing like wood whites we know of. see here:
http://www.purvision.com/butterflies/De ... index.html also known as "Spotted Jezebel "
well I got to think harder about this in future, over to you Felix, the wood white was right!
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:01 pm
by Piers
Thanks for the link Dave, that's the one I was thinking of. I spent some time in Australia some years ago between leaving education and becoming a grown-up(!) and dimly remembered that there was a butterfly named The Wood White down under...
Ok, here goes. I may live to regret asking this question as there could be contention:
Which British butterfly can be said to have the largest number of different larval food plants?
By this I mean different genera of plant, rather than a butterfly that will happily lay it's egg on twenty different species of fescue grasses!
I also specifically mean largest number that are selected by the butterfly to lay on in the wild (so for example the British Swallowtail would not be the correct answer, for while the larvae will happily consume any number of plants in captivity, from Dill to Celery, the adult butterfly invariable only lays on Milk Parsley in the wild).
Sorry to make it complicated...
Felix.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:17 pm
by Pete Eeles
Green Hairstreak.
Cheers,
- Pete
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:52 pm
by FlyByWire
Crikey that Australian Wood White looks like it's been at the crayons. Cool pics!
-Mike
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:53 pm
by Piers
With in excess of thirty larval food plants recorded in the wild in Britain it is indeed the Green Hairstreak!
Clearly far too easy!!
Well done Pete, over to yoooooo.
Felix.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:50 pm
by Pete Eeles
Felix wrote:With in excess of thirty larval food plants recorded in the wild in Britain it is indeed the Green Hairstreak!
30! Really!!! I didn't know *that*! Put it down to a "good guess"! What's your source?
Anyway - I'm running out of questions given the clever lot that inhabit this forum
Here goes - aside from being our largest native butterfly and being restricted to the fens of Norfolk, why is the Swallowtail unique among the butterflies of the British Isles?
Cheers,
- Pete