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Oh poo poo! It's a large copper!!

Guy

It sure is

What took you so long?

Cheers,

- Pete

It's a familiar story - what took me so long was that I was so sure I was right!!

Guy

So, here's the ancient symbol, the Ouroboros:



But what British butterfly is it?

Guy

Guy
Swallowtail.
I had planned to use this as my question - although I was going to ask what Scully's tattoo had in common with a British Butterfly!

Even I got that one Guy.
Go on Roger. What have you got?

Denise

Ok, here is my shot - not too difficult this one.
Which common and sexually dimorphic butterfly was once considered as two species and named The Turnip and The Colewort?

Well done both!!

Part (b) to that question will follow if I catch the ball again!

Until then, over to you, Roger...

Guy

Wow - quick fire questions indeed!! Lucky it's still raining.

I'm going for a quick fire answer and will guess large white.

Guy

I'm going for a quick fire answer and will guess large white.

Nope - not this time.

Orange-tip?

Denise

Orange-tip?

Sorry Denise - not this time.

Ummm, so is it Chalkhill or Adonis Blue then?

Denise

I was going for the 'cole' bit, meaning cabbage, but since turnip is 'rapa' in Latin, I'll change plea to small white.

If it's not that, no more guessing for me...

Guy

Guy, Denise.
Sorry - not quite there yet.
Guy - you are close............

Hi,

I think it is a Brimstone

Cheers

Jerry
Sorry - wrong.
I am surprised it has gone so long.
Perhaps the sexual dimorphism bit has fooled you.
It was not the sexual dimorphism that led to the thought of two species, but variation.
Perhaps that helps.

Well, I have to make my third guess. Surely it has to be one of the Pieris group... So I close with green-veined white.

Wrong again?

Guy

Guy
Correct Green-veined White.
Source : The Butteflies of Great Britain And Ireland - Maitland Emmet & Heath.
(Vol 7, part 1 of The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Hesperiidae to Nymphalidae)

Guy, it is up to you.

At last!

This post should be renamed the hourly quiz!!

Here's my last effort for today - another snake.

How is this...


related to this...

and this?


And where does this fit in?


Guy

All three butterflies photographed this year in Switzerland!