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A Mistaken Butterfly

Nature volume 102, page 285 (1918)Cite this article

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IN NATURE of September 5 last an Australian correspondent notes the attraction of the blue knob of a hatpin for a butterfly. When playing golf in Gulmarg (Kashmir) this summer I was frequently put off by a large butterfly settling on the ball just as I was making a stroke. I make a point of keeping my ball white and clean, and the butterflies evidently mistook it for a white flower.

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ROBSON, S. A Mistaken Butterfly. Nature 102, 285 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102285c0

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