Vanessa at night - no 3
Martin Bailey
cmbb at sk.sympatico.ca
Tue Jan 29 10:27:39 EST 2002
Nick Greatorex-Davies wrote:
D.J. Sullivan (Jan 1946). Remarkable Migration of Butterflies at Night and
During a gale in Co. Donegal, Irish Naturalists Journal, Volume 8, page 397.
"A remarkable feature of the night of 10th October [presumably Wednesday
10th October 1945 - Ian Rippey] was a migratory movement of Painted Lady and
Red Admiral butterflies, in company with Snipe, Redshank, Curlew and Golden
Plover. This in a gale of wind and rain - force 7. "
When you say force 7, is that the Beaufort Scale - a wind of around 35 miles
an hour ( and in a rain, and may be in sea spray). Remarkable that the
butterflies were able to keep aloft.
Martin Bailey,
greetings from: Weyburn, SK., Canada.
49.39N 103.51W
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