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Post by johnnyboy on Sept 2, 2013 3:34:11 GMT -8
I was examining my garden pond, on a sunny afternoon just over a week ago, when I spotted an unmistakable zebra butterfly flying through my garden. My first assumption was that, as an exotic in a London garden, it was probably an escaped captive bred specimen. However, I suppose that it is not impossible that it arrived by other means.
Johnny
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Post by suzuki on Sept 2, 2013 10:10:13 GMT -8
A long way for it to have migrated!
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Post by papilio28570 on Sept 16, 2013 20:37:15 GMT -8
Probable escapee from a commercial butterfly greenhouse.
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Post by multicaudata on Sept 17, 2013 12:53:18 GMT -8
It's also possible that a gravid female escaped and established a small temporary population (to be wiped out by the coming winter, of course). Given the correct host plant and warm enough summer weather, just about anything can establish itself in temperate latitudes for a single summer, even if it can't survive the winters there.
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