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Peacock butterfly mystery

Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,900 Major grins
edited November 8, 2014 in Holy Macro
A bit of a mystery regarding peacock butterflies. The shots below are of what I think is a newly emerged peacock butterfly we found in our dining room on October 26th trying to get out via the closed French windows. This is the 4th peacock butterfly we have found in our dining room since August 9th. I've not really got any idea of how it got there as there is no vegetable matter/plants etc in the dining room. I did see a peacock butterfly fly into the dining room in the summer through open French windows and fly out again after a quick tour of the room. We haven't had the French windows open for at least a month now.
Anyway shots from 3 different cameras (Nikon1J2, canon 600D/90mm tamron, canon 5dmk2/MPE-65).
Brian V.

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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2014
    It hasn't had the wear and tear of the season, that's for sure.

    This very warm late October is causing some confusion. We now have unexpanded catkins on at least two hazel trees.

    Harold
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    Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,900 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2014
    Thanks for the info Harold :)
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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2014
    I just, a few minutes ago, experienced the same thing in our (southeast-facing) lounge.

    There is a severe frost this morning, the coldest morning of the autumn. The mist has cleared and the sun is warming the room through the huge picture window.

    The perfect Peacock was fluttering against the window. I released it.

    There has been no access from the outside in recent weeks apart from the adjacent door/window slid open at times, just wide enough to allow access for our cats.

    Harold
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    Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,900 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2014
    e6filmuser wrote: »
    I just, a few minutes ago, experienced the same thing in our (southeast-facing) lounge.

    There is a severe frost this morning, the coldest morning of the autumn. The mist has cleared and the sun is warming the room through the huge picture window.

    The perfect Peacock was fluttering against the window. I released it.

    There has been no access from the outside in recent weeks apart from the adjacent door/window slid open at times, just wide enough to allow access for our cats.

    Harold

    Interesting Harold.
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    MntnKarieMntnKarie Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited November 6, 2014
    Thanks for sharing the pics. I haven't seen them over here in North America.
    You have some great creatures over in the UK.
    Beautiful images.
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    StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2014
    Last one!iloveyou.gif
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    Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,900 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2014
    Thanks again for the comments MK and SB :):
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    GOLDENORFEGOLDENORFE Super Moderators Posts: 4,747 moderator
    edited November 8, 2014
    Possibly the caterpillars managed to crawl in & Pupate. Somewhere inside ?
    Phil

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