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Mystery butterfly
On 2013-08-24 09:21:52 +0000, mark said:
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2013-08-23 19:30:04 +0100, mark said: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2013-08-21 13:07:20 +0100, CT said: Sacha wrote: On 2013-08-21 12:13:55 +0100, CT said: Sacha wrote: It's a Postman Butterfly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliconius_melpomene How terrific of you and Stewart to come up with that so quickly. Thank you very much indeed. It says that it's poisonous but not to what! Man, birds, other insects? Only other butterflies, I wonder? I'll do some more looking up. The Nursery team will be thrilled to know about it. We have quite a lot of passion flowers in various greenhouses, so that could explain how it found its way to us. Thank you very much! I did cheat a little. I'd been to the "Butterflies in the Glasshouse" at RHS Wisley earlier in the year and that looked vaguely familiar so I Googled for their Butterfly ID sheet that they gave out at the time and found this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-20992861 See the 4th image! I was in a garden centre in New Zealand and noticed some plants had lots of caterpillars which I dutifully reported to a member of staff. Apparently they are sold like that so people can have exotic butterflies in their own greenhouses. mark If that was in the North island, I suppose it doesn't matter if they escape into the wild, either. -- It was in Christchurch. We were in the garden centre to buy our host a tree by way of a thankyou. mark Bit chilly in winter, perhaps? We were there in October/November, though we didn't visit Christchurch. It was warm with a coat needed occasionally, sort of weather. But the real winter probably wouldn't be kind to exotic butterflies. I'd love to net a greenhouse here and let such beautiful creatures into it, but it's not very practical for us, unfortunately. Did they tell you if that's what people do there, or how the whole thing works? It sounds lovely. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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Mystery butterfly
When we were on our World Cruise, New Zealand was the only place which made
my wife homesick during the complete three month cruise. Lovely place Mike "sacha" wrote in message ... On 2013-08-24 09:21:52 +0000, mark said: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2013-08-23 19:30:04 +0100, mark said: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2013-08-21 13:07:20 +0100, CT said: Sacha wrote: On 2013-08-21 12:13:55 +0100, CT said: Sacha wrote: It's a Postman Butterfly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliconius_melpomene How terrific of you and Stewart to come up with that so quickly. Thank you very much indeed. It says that it's poisonous but not to what! Man, birds, other insects? Only other butterflies, I wonder? I'll do some more looking up. The Nursery team will be thrilled to know about it. We have quite a lot of passion flowers in various greenhouses, so that could explain how it found its way to us. Thank you very much! I did cheat a little. I'd been to the "Butterflies in the Glasshouse" at RHS Wisley earlier in the year and that looked vaguely familiar so I Googled for their Butterfly ID sheet that they gave out at the time and found this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-20992861 See the 4th image! I was in a garden centre in New Zealand and noticed some plants had lots of caterpillars which I dutifully reported to a member of staff. Apparently they are sold like that so people can have exotic butterflies in their own greenhouses. mark If that was in the North island, I suppose it doesn't matter if they escape into the wild, either. -- It was in Christchurch. We were in the garden centre to buy our host a tree by way of a thankyou. mark Bit chilly in winter, perhaps? We were there in October/November, though we didn't visit Christchurch. It was warm with a coat needed occasionally, sort of weather. But the real winter probably wouldn't be kind to exotic butterflies. I'd love to net a greenhouse here and let such beautiful creatures into it, but it's not very practical for us, unfortunately. Did they tell you if that's what people do there, or how the whole thing works? It sounds lovely. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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