Monarch at Black Range, NSW
Identification history
| Danaus plexippus | 23 Mar 2020 | StephH |
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A single individual feeding on the nectar of a blue-flowering exotic whose name I've forgotten. Possibly a male.
6 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
24 Mar 2020
Hmm, our book shows images of both sexes, but I'm stumped as to what the differences are. They look pretty nearly identical. The plant is Oxypetalum coeruleum (used to be Tweedia caerulea), no common name that I'm aware of, although being such a striking plant you'd think someone would have come up with one.
StephH
wrote:
24 Mar 2020
Thanks Jackie. I remember the name Tweedia now. That's how I'd known it before. Is it an exotic?
Re the monarchs, my book's illustrations show a few more dots on the margin of the forewing in males but my phone pics aren't much to go by.
Re the monarchs, my book's illustrations show a few more dots on the margin of the forewing in males but my phone pics aren't much to go by.
JackieMiles
wrote:
25 Mar 2020
Yep, exotic, and fairly invasive, so if it is on your place or nearby road verge I'd be pulling it out.
GlennCocking
wrote:
26 Mar 2020
This is a male - see the black patch of sex scales on the first vein out from the inner margin of the hindwing on photo 2.
StephH
wrote:
26 Mar 2020
Thanks Glenn. Now that you point them out I can see the marks on the wings in the pic and in the Braby illustrations.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.846034-36.732385
- Places Black Range, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 23 Mar 2020 03:00 PM Recorded on
- StephH Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) StephH
Species information
- Danaus plexippus Scientific name
- Monarch Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1326.7m Recorded at altitude
- 64 images trained Machine learning
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