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SrTw — Peacock butterfly after hibernating. Huddersfield
Published: 2015-04-08 21:41:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 179; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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Time for courtship and mating.Related content
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I guess it didn`t bother with you at all
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Well I had to approach it very slowly so as not to alarm it!
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Was it as tough as I imagine it to be?
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Do you mean tough? (difficult). I've never seen touch as an adjective. Or did you mean close (almost touching)? I think with this butterfly as with several before, I was so close that only by actually touching it, it would have flown away!!! That is easier when they are feeding on a flower and have all their attention on that, but more tricky like this.
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Woops, sorry about that, when I was writing this, I was borderline-nuts because I didn`t get enough sleep and I hadn`t noticed it. Let me fix my comment if I can. I meant "tough", even though when it comes to the distance, I had actually stumbled across a few butterflies that were so chill on the ground, they hadn`t even noticed me slowly approaching them and then briefly patting their furry backs (since they had their wings down as well) before they acknowledged me and flew away for a couple of inches. It was pretty priceless as well as funny, to me at least.
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That is quite unusual. Are you sure they were butterflies and not moths (very furry backs are common in moths)? But the same happened to me in Mexico City with Camberwell Beauty butterflies (Nymphalis antiopa). There were many of them in a suburb on a low wall and they would even climb on to my hand and arm. They are usually very powerful and determined flyers! ^^
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They were definitely butterflies, since you cannot see moths at noon, unless you`re in a house that has an AC during hottest days, since I found the medium-sized grey one there once, just chilling on the wall, like it was sleeping~ 
Hehe, brave little insects, should I say, especially after we usually see them as being too afraid of us to actually fly near us, let alone climb on us like we`re living breathing trees or something
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That's a great experience. I think that is the reason why I was able to do that too! I am convinced that the ones in Mex. had just emerged but their wings had only just dried. Can you look up Camberwell Beauty as it is related to the Peacock?
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Completely, just like they had been reborn or something and still have their interest in people before taking off, even if it might be dangerous as well if you ask me~
D`awwww, now that is one heck of a beautiful butterfly (and apparently it`s native to Euroasia too, only it`s more situated in the mainland and (apparently) Scandinavia while the ones you can see in the UK are just migratory), no matter its North American name~
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Yes it is a rae migrant to the UK, mainly England and mainly those areas towards Scandinavia (well the eastern counties) as you rightly pointed out. In some years quite a few come over, but I've never neen lucky enough to see one here. Did you say the name was American. Canberwell beauty is named after Camberwell, S E England. which is near to where 2 specimens were found (a long time ago). I always look out for them. So it wasn't the one you saw then?
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I know about Camberwell Beauty as a name for this little beaut of a butterfly (justified as well) being from UK, I thought that you knew its North American name for it as well, which is "Mourning Cloak". Which is kind of off-putting for it when regarding the entire context if you ask me and apparently original one as well, since its roots are in Germanic name for it.
Nah, it wasn`t the one, the one I saw was one of the smaller swallowtail ones.
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Sorry about all the spelin mistaykes in the last message! I must have been russian it!
Yes, sorry, I got my knickers in a twist a bit with my reply and I hadn't read properly what you had written. Yes, I was definitely rushing the whole thing! You are 100% spot on. Yes I knew the two names!
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Awww, no problem and well, who doesn`t rush at times, especially when you have THE GIANT STORM COMING RIGHT TOWARDS YOUR HOME? O_O Which is actually happening.
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I always listen to everything you say because you are always exceptionally well informed (really!!!). I hadn't heard of the storm so I just checked and there it is!
I first thought you may have been referring to a certain financial storm or a political one ....
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Oh yes, that kind of storm. Even if it doesn`t seem to rear its ugly head as per now, it certainly will, unless the Higher Powers can somehow prevent it.
Hahahahahaha, nice one, given that students are the one who both catch and cause the most storms in my country, beside those bloody politicians. You should have seen the storm that happened when the public discovered that our political representative had signed SOPA without even checking what it says. Man, she was that close from being fired right on the spot and then being taken away by the enraged public.
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So what happened to her in the end apart from a good kicking (the metaphorical type)?
I am much more concerned about TTIP. I am worried that USA may try and force Europe to participate and to have American produce in the shops here. I eat mainly organic food and I don't trust the US to keep to the traditional definitions of organic. They might EVEN try to secretly introduce that GMO CRAP into the European food chain, that some poor sods in the USA have to EAT!!!!!!!!!
So be careful with TTIP. FIGHT it! I WOULDN'T GO NEAR IT, NOT EVEN TO SNIFF IT. Upper case is rare for me. But I was shouting - not at you, but for you and hopefully with you! I think the main reason Obama wants UK to stay in the EU is pressure from mass-producers of ****, so that they can get rid of a lot more of its TTIP "produce" on to the world markets and over time normalize it, so that people think it is OK. I've seen the food labels of American "produce". Even the bits that are not hidden are extremely worrying. In Europe they are a pleasure to read. Check TTIP out now in case the threat of it is imminent!!!
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She got to keep her position after publicly apologizing on the TV (even thought we still didn`t believe that and thus yeah, even more public flandering and humiliation until we were satisfied. Seriously, if there are any brainless politicians in here, they were hushed right there on the spot).
Oh boy and yes, I had heard about this, heck, I`m actively participating in this crap never ever becoming the hard law, be it in Europe or in the mother-briggin` US-of-A even! Let America keep this pile of crap away from the Old World, no matter how much do its politicians tell the European ones that we still owe them for saving our asses in WW2 and all. I can be only thankful that as soon as the entire TPP thing came out fully by the enraged public, even the politicians said "NO!" of such thing, thus yeah, I still have a very minor faith in them as much as the public can keep the pressure of them heads. If they cave-in, well, prepare the pitchforks and torches because this would be the last fail they would have ever done to us little people.
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