Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, The discrepancies had been bugging me. It just proves once again that we shouldn't believe it to be true just because we found it on the internet. Dean Hansen is a gifted expert on insects of all sorts. If anyone can set me straight, it is Dean. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 9/27/2016 11:11 AM, Ted Grant wrote: > Hi Jim, > Now there's a post with photos well worth opening and really taking the > time to read, enjoy the images and learn something really useful! > One reads, views and learns a tidbit of nature that someday you happen to > be, by accident, caught in conversation with some butterfly folks. > And you pop out with a few comments of interesting knowledge and become > possibly "KING of the butterfly WORLD?" :-) > HOWEVER? "Don't get caught sounding like some kind of know it all" and blow > your moment or two of credibility! :-) :-) > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of > Jim Nichols > Sent: September-27-16 8:38 AM > To: LUG at Leica-Users.org; Olympus Camera Discussion > Subject: [Leica] A Tale of Two Butterflies > > I would like to clear up the butterfly puzzle that has been bothering me > since yesterday, when I posted two shots of a blue-gray butterfly that I > called a Gray Hairstreak, because it appears in several on-line photo > sets under that name. However, I had captured a Gray Hairstreak three > weeks earlier, and the markings were somewhat different. > > After consulting with Dean Hansen, the OM list butterfly authority, I > now know that the recent sighting is an "Eastern Tailed Blue". Dean > kindly pointed out the specific markings that detail the differences. I > have corrected the titles and will add the links below in case anyone > wants to take another look. > > Eastern Tailed Blue (the tail is more visible in the next image) > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Gray+Hairstreak+on+Goldenrod.TI > FF.html > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Gray+Hairstreak+2.TIFF.html > > A Gray Hairstreak captured with my 1890 Ross London lens > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Soldier+_amp_+Hairstreak.TIFF.h > tml > > Note the difference in alignment of the spots on the outer part of the > wings, as well as the blue spot between the two orange spots. > > Thanks for your patience. And thanks again, Dean, for the quick > response and help. >