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Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:59 pm
by Rogerdodge
Ford, Heath and South - Lep authors?
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:03 pm
by Pete Eeles
You're slipping Roger - that took a whole 16 minutes
Well done that man.
Cheers,
- Pete
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:08 pm
by Padfield
That's just what I had in mind.
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Over to you, Roger.
Guy
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:21 pm
by Rogerdodge
Caught a rarity? Fill the collection.
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:39 pm
by Padfield
It's a fritillary... Do you need us to find which one?
Guy
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:16 pm
by Rogerdodge
Do you need us to find which one?
Of course!
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Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:31 pm
by Padfield
In that case, I'll go for heath frit...
Guy
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:50 pm
by eccles
Collection = Glanville?
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:00 pm
by Rogerdodge
Guy has it-
a rarity? Fill the -
anagram of Heath Fritillary (except I missed out an "h" - sorry
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Over to Guy - the mind reading anagram solver
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:39 am
by Padfield
It's just beginning to feel a little 'end-of-seasony'. So here are a couple of geriatrics that I'd like you to identify, both photographed in 2009. One is a British species and one isn't. To eliminate guessing on the first one, I think I should introduce a 'two strikes and you're out' policy!
Guy
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:38 am
by Denise
I'll have a go. In case I'm way off the mark, I'll give you my reasoning.
The first one is a blue or a hairstreak, because of the eyes and atenntae. Looks like a female, which makes it harder. I can just make out the slightest line and hint of orange on the hind wing. Thinking that this one is a UK resident, I'll go for Black Hairstreak.
The second one I think, is one that I saw this year with increasing black spots with an yellow ring, from the apex, down the outer margin, and white pupils in the hind wing. I can also make out at least two lines beneath the spots, so I'll say Woodland Brown.
Here's hoping
Denise
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:28 am
by Padfield
Good reasoning and some good conclusions, Denise, but in the end not 100% correct. You have one more go...
Guy
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:13 am
by Denise
My last go, and I'll say White-letter Hairstreak and Woodland Brown.
Denise
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:14 am
by m_galathea
I think Denise is correct with Woodland Brown. The other is difficult! Possibly a Purple Hairstreak?
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:30 am
by Padfield
Denise's second shot was spot on!
The markings visible on the hindwing of the hairstreak are obviously underside markings, visible because the sun is shining through the wing (the near hindwing is mostly absent). Everything that can be seen of these markings is compatible with white-letter hairstreak (but not with black, which has black points, not a black line, interior to the orange, nor with purple). I know for other reasons that it was white-letter: it was flying in a wood at about 900m with elm and ash, where this is the only hairstreak, and I saw at least four or five others the same day, mostly flitting around the top of their favourite ash tree. There is no blackthorn in the vicinity.
Yes, the woodland brown is unmistakable, however geriatric it may be!!
All yours, Denise!
Guy
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:35 am
by Denise
Yeaaah.
Will have to think up a question.
Denise
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:25 pm
by Denise
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:44 pm
by Dave McCormick
1. Painted LAdy
2 Meadow Brown
3 Ringlet
4 Small Copper
5 Essex Skipper?
6 Purple Emperor
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:05 pm
by Denise
Not bad Dave.
Numbers 1, 2, and 4 are correct. Numbers 3, 5 and 6 to go.
Denise
Re: Daily Quiz
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:09 pm
by Dave McCormick
Ok, I'll go at:
3: Speckled Wood
5 Small Skipper
6 I don't know anything that has a yellow proboscus but a Purple emperor, so need to think, unless someone else gets in before me