Showing posts with label Punctuation butterflies. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Punctuation butterflies

 

Punctuation butterflies . . . and others

In one of my A to Z challenge posts, I featured a photograph of a Comma butterfly. Lynn, from Precious, commented that there were Eastern Commas where she lives, in Ohio. She mentioned that there were also Question Mark butterflies in her area.

This intrigued me and led me to wonder if there were any other grammatical insects. There follows a list of the ones I’ve found so far. I’m sure it’s not an exhaustive record and would love to know if anyone knows of any others.

All photographs are courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album)

Found in Europe, widespread in England and Ireland


Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma, also known as the hop merchant or the comma anglewing)

Can be seen in North America



Question mark butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis)

Found in Eastern USA, Canada and Mexico


                                       


Exclamation moth (Homaledra heptathalama, commonly called the Palmetto feeder)

Find this in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana



Exclamation froghopper (Neophilaenus exclamationis)

Widespread in Britain and Ireland



Full Stop butterfly or Full Stop Swift (Caltoris cormasa)

Can be found in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore



Parenthesis Lady beetle (Hippodamia parenthesis)

Find this in North America

 


How about some mathematical insects? Inchworm?