இந்த GOP சவால் ஒரு சாப்ட்பால். இந்த படத்தை விக்டோரியா பரிந்து பாதுகாப்பு வருகிறது (TX காகித) – ஒரு poorly written article about butterflies. இந்த படத்தை தோல்வியாக அழகான எளிது, ஆனால் என்னை சொல்ல முடியும் கூடுதல் புள்ளிகள் வேறு என்ன உரை தவறானது?
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இந்த GOP சவால் ஒரு சாப்ட்பால். இந்த படத்தை விக்டோரியா பரிந்து பாதுகாப்பு வருகிறது (TX காகித) – ஒரு poorly written article about butterflies. இந்த படத்தை தோல்வியாக அழகான எளிது, ஆனால் என்னை சொல்ல முடியும் கூடுதல் புள்ளிகள் வேறு என்ன உரை தவறானது?
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The butterfly names are incorrectly reveresed (the Queen is on the left, the Monarch is on the right). Are eyespots on the wings called ocelli?
p.s. I only just realized that I’d forgotten to update my feeder after your initial move to these new digs…here I thought you were being all quiet and not blogging – உள்ளது! Silly me; lots of catching up to do!
Welcome back!
The article you link to appears to have been written not by a typical journalist, but by the Education Director for a local zoo. Whether that makes it better or worse, I do not know.
Not only confused about which species is which, but also about which sex is attracted to which.
ஓக்கே, they are pretty obviously switched! You’re correct about the ocelli (which are actual light sensitive structure on the head and not just eye spots).
கூடுதலாக, the queen is actually “foul-tasting”, it does not mimic the monarch and both are aposematically colored. Not to mention the author also calls scales setae!
Ted is also correct… those females are probably trying to mimic the pipevine swallowtail, not attracting males.
What a mess.
I would have enjoyed seeing the writer go a bit more in depth on mimicry. It’s a bit lazy to merely write it off as just camouflage. Maybe explain the difference between Mullerian and Batesian. Mimicry may very well hold the key to correct ancestry placement among Neotropical butterflies.
The caption also implies that the Queen butterfly is not brightly colored. The writer needs to go back to Strunk and White.
Thanks for the nifty blog.