Danaus plexippus

Monarch at Black Range, NSW

Danaus plexippus at Black Range, NSW - 23 Mar 2020 03:00 PM
Danaus plexippus at Black Range, NSW - 23 Mar 2020 03:00 PM
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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.

4 comments

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.
StephH wrote:
   25 Mar 2020
Thanks again. Will do.
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.

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Species information

  • Danaus plexippus Scientific name
  • Monarch Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1326.7m Recorded at altitude
  • 74 images trained Machine learning
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