[Leica] A Tale of Two Butterflies

[Jim Nichols]

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.
>