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Roger Hebb
 Post subject: large yellow butterfly.
PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:36 am 
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hi,
lately ive seen a large yellow butterfly twice,but only briefly,is this the brimstone,or a migrant butterfly,it looked bigger than brimstone,thou may be wrong.
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Freddy Johnson
PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:07 am 
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Hi Roger,
The only 'yellow' butterflies you'll see in the UK are

Brimstone
male fore-wing 26/30mm
(the female Brimstone is a greenish- white)

Clouded Yellow
male fore-wing 23/27mm

(the length of the fore-wing is measured from apex to point of attachment to thorax in millimetres).
The Clouded Yellow is a migrant but is marginally smaller than the Brimstone and has wide black marginal borders.
I think you will have seen the male Brimstone.

Regards,

Freddy
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