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I live In Sharpness, Gloucestershire. What is this please?

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:50 pm
by Timerine
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Please excuse my shamefully dirty window :oops: :)

Thanks In advance xxx

Re: I live In Sharpness, Gloucestershire. What is this please?

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:01 am
by Trev Sawyer
Hi Timerine,
Looks like one of the Heliconid species of butterfly - not native to the UK, so it must be an escapee from a butterfly house or collector. Maybe someone else on here will be able to tell you the exact species, but there are quite a few :wink:

See: http://heliconius.zoo.cam.ac.uk/heliconius/

Trev

Re: I live In Sharpness, Gloucestershire. What is this please?

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:32 am
by Padfield
Perhaps the extremely variable Eueides isabella. Definitely an escapee!

Guy

Re: I live In Sharpness, Gloucestershire. What is this please?

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:15 pm
by Dave McCormick
Tiger longwing? Heliconius hecale I got one identified for me at a butterfly farm I was at, so it could be that its variable:

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Re: I live In Sharpness, Gloucestershire. What is this please?

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:41 pm
by Timerine
That's what I thought LOL! We are close to Berkeley Castle and they have a butterfly house there so that makes sense :mrgreen:

Thanks all xxx