Butterflies in wind

Wibbles
Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,952 Championing
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Just watched two cabbage whites flying together (after a bit of s*x) and wondered how they managed to stay so close despite the gusting wind?
I know that it is to do with pheramomes but how do you they actually control their flight?
Amazing 

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  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I imagine with difficulty! Never see a butterfly fly in a straight line do you. 🤣
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Currently down the beach, just had a butterfly fly straight past me no fluttering, then again is fairly windy down here....
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    This is a convulvulus Hawk moth I discovered laying on my back door step the other night...huge!

  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,469 Championing
    Blimey @leeCal!
  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,952 Championing
    leeCal said:
    This is a convulvulus Hawk moth I discovered laying on my back door step the other night...huge!

    We had a Hawk moth caterpillar a few months ago in the garden - that too was huge!! 
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing
    Really huge!
  • Karen7788
    Karen7788 Scope Member Posts: 596 Empowering
    My sister would scream the house down if it was on her step. 

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