Butterfly colour scheme quiz
|10:20 UK time, Friday, 30 July 2010
Editor's note: Whilst Jeremy is away here is researcher Emma Brennand with an exploration of nature's palette and a summery butterfly quiz.
Butterfly week has brought a welcome decoration of vivid colours to the more subtle tones of the BBC Nature UK office. To celebrate this weeks' rainbow of butterfly colours we have put together a butterfly colour scheme quiz.
Update 6th August: You can find the answers to the colour scheme quiz on this blog post. No peeking!
Can you identify the uniform of eight of our most widespread butterfly species? If you find you can't tell your commas from your painted ladies the Big Butterfly Count ID guide might come in useful.
A little tip to get you started. If you get stuck try comparing the proportions of colours rather than comparing the exact colour of nature's palette. And watch out for those tricky marble whites.
Colour scheme 1.
Colour scheme 2.
Colour scheme 3.
Colour scheme 4.
Colour scheme 6.
Colour scheme 7.
Colour scheme 8.
Tricky hey? Let us know how you do by posting your answers below.
We've posted the quiz answers now, how many did you get right?
Comment number 1.
At 14:10 30th Jul 2010, Denice_Stout wrote:that is a bit harsh ,but here goes:
1 Peacock
2(large/small)tortoise shell
3 Red admiral
4 Comma
5 Purple emperor
6 Large white
7 Marbled white
8 Painted lady
I probably have most wrong! *wibble*
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Comment number 2.
At 11:58 1st Aug 2010, PoppyFlax wrote:What a brilliant idea! It's hard though. It's amazing how you can identify things just from blocks of colour. I'm fairly confident about 1-4, 5 and 6 might be right, might not, but really not at all sure about 7 and 8. Great idea for a quiz!
1. Peacock
2. Small Tortoiseshell
3. Red Admiral
4. Comma
5. Common Blue
6. Small White
7. Speckled Wood
8. Small Copper
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Comment number 3.
At 22:53 1st Aug 2010, Jadelyn wrote:Peacock
Small Tortoiseshell
Red Admiral
Comma
Common Blue
Small White
Marbled White
Painted Lady
This was harder than I thought it would be.
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Comment number 4.
At 07:51 3rd Aug 2010, Nicola Main wrote:1. Peacock.
2. Small Tortoiseshell
3. Red Admiral
4. Comma
5. Common Blue
6. Large White
7. Marbled White
8. Painted Lady
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