Monarch at Black Range, NSW
Identification history
| Danaus plexippus | 23 Mar 2020 | StephH |
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User's notes
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.
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.
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
- At least 1 Abundance
- 23 Mar 2020 03:00 PM Recorded on
- StephH Recorded by
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Collections
StephH South Coast NatureMapr Danaus plexippus Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
Species information
- Danaus plexippus Scientific name
- Monarch Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1326.7m Recorded at altitude
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