Backyard Series #64 (2 butterflies)

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Backyard Series #64 (2 butterflies)

Post by Michigan Michael »

Here are two
from the Detroit Zoo.

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Harold Gough
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Post by Harold Gough »

The butterfly looks superb in both. However, the colours are harmonious in the first but the hot pink and the (oof) torquoise are distracting in the second.

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Post by Michigan Michael »

Thanks for your comments, Harold.
Such an inelegant butterfly for being "attracted" to such a "distracting" flower.
:oops:

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Post by Harold Gough »

The butterflies know that the colours are only advertising for a food supply. As in the world of product advertising, high impact sometimes triumphs over (our changing values of) aesthetics.

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Post by Michigan Michael »

Well said, Harold!

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Post by NikonUser »

Although "well said", Harold didn't day it all. What we see as hot pink says nothing about what the butterfly sees. These beasts see UV reflections and other wavelengths that we do not see, so what looks like a high impact colour to us may be black to a butterfly.
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Post by Harold Gough »

I didn't actually say how the butterfly saw it although I didn't specify that it was was human perception of the colours. I don't think "high impact" is a concept that would be shared by insects! :)

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Post by Graham Stabler »

Well he was pointing out what you didn't say

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Post by Harold Gough »

Graham Stabler wrote:Well he was pointing out what you didn't say
Whoops! Apparently another "senior moment". (They can go on for rather longer than a moment!). :roll:

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