Are there any nasty critters in New Zealand or did Oz get them all? :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/19/2011 5:18 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Chuck wrote
>> I see the persistence finally paid off. I've never paid much attention to
>> butterfly sensory organs before but am a bit surprised that he can see or
>> sense you 15 feet away. But I guess that's probably a survival
>> requirement against fast moving birds
> We don't have hornets in NZ, but I've read that when butterflies (species not
> remembered) were freely flying around a forest clearing (size unspecified),
> and a hornet or two appeared, suddenly there was not even one butterfly to
> be seen.
>
> I'm guessing that hornets are meat-eaters (butterflies in particular ) and the
> butterflies can hear the specific pitch of hornet wings, from quite a distance
> away.
>
> Brian Swale.
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