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Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:23 am
by Rogerdodge
Whilst in France earlier this year, one particular Spotted Fritillary proved particularly elusive when I attempted to photograph it.
I think it has evolved a unique mechanism to evade intrusive photographers.
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:28 am
by David M
LOL!
You got a surfeit of time on your hands at the mo'?
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:39 am
by Michaeljf
It's funny how long I had to look at the photograph to see this new stage of 'evolution'
I must be getting old.
Great picture, though perhaps not one for uploading to the front of the UKB website!
Michael
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:55 am
by ChrisC
very good
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:43 am
by Susie
I didn't know butterflies could be bi-lingual! So clever.
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:33 pm
by Matsukaze
Any thoughts on how this aberration should be named?
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:53 pm
by Padfield
Melitaea didyma ab. touretti?
Guy
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:58 pm
by David M
padfield wrote:Melitaea didyma ab. touretti?
Guy
Only you could come up with that!
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:48 pm
by Gibster
The worst of it is that if such a butterfly DID exist, your camera would be indoors, your phone would be flat and nobody would ever believe you anyway
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:55 pm
by Lee Hurrell
Brilliant!
Lee
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:50 am
by Rogerdodge
Guy
I found one very similar in the Cockayne database-
Melitaea didyma ab. dietrichii
What do you think?
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:36 am
by MikeOxon
Utterly brilliant - and so is Padfield's naming!
One would think that such a mutation would provide such a huge evolutionary advantage that it should have become commonplace. Perhaps Susie has put her finger on the reason why it has not.
I wonder which genetic engineering company is working on how to put advertisements there?
Mike
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:56 pm
by Jack Harrison
ab. touretti?
I once found it to be the dominant form on the top deck of of a bus in one of our large Scottish cities, the normal form being totally absent.
Jack
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:54 pm
by Rogerdodge
I wonder which genetic engineering company is working on how to put advertisements there?
Mike
I think it has been done.
Here is the aptly named Red Ad.
Vanessa atalanta ab. olympia
Re: Evolution in Action
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:22 pm
by David M
Like it.
Keep 'em coming!