Posted on 06/05/2023 1:05:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
Blink and you could miss them - but mysterious sightings of an extremely rare butterfly have set the hearts of enthusiasts fluttering.
The species, previously described as extinct in Britain for nearly 100 years, has suddenly appeared in countryside on the edge of London.
Small numbers of black-veined whites have been spotted flying in fields and hedgerows in south-east London.
To the non-expert, they could easily be mistaken for the common or garden cabbage white butterflies seen in Britain every summer.
But there's nothing common about the black-veined white on this side of the Channel.
First listed as a British species during the reign of King Charles II, they officially became extinct in Britain in 1925.
This month they have mysteriously appeared among their favourite habitat: hawthorn and blackthorn trees on the edge of London, where I and other naturalists watched them flitting between hedgerows.
As their name suggests, they are a medium-sized white butterfly with distinctive black vein markings on their wings.
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Extinct butterfy reappears... An impossibility but we seem to have a lot of physically impossible things nowadays.
Not the famous Cabbage Butterfly!?!
Perfect!
My first request to Bing was to create an image of a pteradactyl flying around Big Ben with a Londoner in it’s grip.
But Bing said it couldn’t create an image like that. So I left off the Londoner and then it made it.
More evidence that the alarmists are all too eager to declare “extinct,” then have to meekly walk it back.
Not even close to looking like the Cabbage butterfly except for their both being white on the inside surface of their wings.
11. RODAN RULES!!!
I’d be willing to bet that some of these flying reptiles existed well into historical times and that’s where the mythological ‘dragon’ comes from.
Every culture since ancient times has had dragons in its mythology. But no one has ever seen one!
Even the Aztecs had a Flying Feathered Snake in its mythology. If you show anyone a picture of it they will say “dragon”......................
Not the same butterfly...................
LOL!
“Get me...I’m giving out vaccinated, blood clot wings...”
My brain’s bleeding, Bert!
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