Hi all, I've now got photoed examples of all six of the Chance butterfly dishes, but although I have four identified, a couple are confusing me as to their proper name ???
See: Butterfly Dishes (http://www.encill.abelalways.co.uk/chanceglass/pages_fiesta/fiesta_patt-series.html#butterfly)
The six names given by Chance for the series are:
[*]1. Red Admiral
[*]2. Agrias Lugens
[*]3. Milkweed
[*]4. Swallowtail
[*]5. Peacock
[*]6. Holly Blue
Can anyone help me get them ordered properly? Thanks for looking 8)
David — My list (other replies unread as I didn't want to get confused)
[*]1. Red Admiral — Correctly identified.
[*]2. Agrias Lugens — Correctly identified.
[*]3. Milkweed — Identified in your images as "? ? ?" — better known here as the Monarch butterfly, a rare vagrant from N. America.
[*]4. Swallowtail — Correctly identified.
[*]5. Peacock — Correctly identified.
[*]6. Holly Blue — Identified in your images as "Milkweed?" — note the unmistakeable row of black dots on the underside of the forewing. We saw about five or six of these at Grange Arch, Isle of Purbeck last summer, feeding off bramble flowers.
We only discovered at the end of last year that we live in a stronghold of the rare Wood White, with three local woods managed for this species. So we will be there, first week in June, hoping to see not only this beauty, but also the male's strange wing-bashing behaviour; see this video (http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?vernacular_name=Wood%20White).
Bernard C. 8)