Danaus plexippus
Monarch at Black Range, NSW
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| Danaus plexippus | StephH | 23 Mar 2020 |
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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
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.
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.
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
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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