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Brimstone pic
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:16 pm
by Charles Nicol
How did they get this Brimstone to open its wings ? Is it an ex-Brimstone ?
http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... tion=Popup
Charles
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Re: Brimstone pic
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:42 pm
by Dave McCormick
I saw that too and asked myself the same question. They never open there wings, well not when I have seen them anyway. Only once did I see one open its wings like that, but it got trapped in a window and it was rescured.
Re: Brimstone pic
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:18 pm
by Pete Eeles
This looks very very dodgy to me. Let's hope whoever took the photo simply "stunned" the butterfly somehow, before it flew away.
Cheers,
- Pete
Re: Brimstone pic
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:38 pm
by Padfield
The whole butterfly, including the body, seems so close to the leaf it is on that I can't believe it's standing on legs. Sometimes pictures can be misleading, and real life caught in a moment can look awkward, but it does look very much like a dead butterfly to me.
Guy
Re: Brimstone pic
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:53 pm
by NickB
Photoshop rules, eh? (Does look like a "pinned" specimen tho')
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Just remembered I got a pic of a Speckled Wood basking early in the morning that looks as though it is pinned!