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I can find a few mentions of butterflies on the board, but no butterfly thread, so...
I left the window open in my bedroom to get some air into the place in the heat, and when I went up there yesterday I found a butterfly (red admiral) had got in and was trying and failing to get out. So I opened the window fully, expecting a lot of corralling to get the creature to fly back out, but nope, it noticed straight away and off it went to its wild blue yonders.
So my question is, are butterflies more intelligent than actual flies? You wouldn't get a bluebottle doing that, in fact most flies just bounce off the pane even though there's a gap they could easily escape through. Anyone know about butterfly psychology?
I left the window open in my bedroom to get some air into the place in the heat, and when I went up there yesterday I found a butterfly (red admiral) had got in and was trying and failing to get out. So I opened the window fully, expecting a lot of corralling to get the creature to fly back out, but nope, it noticed straight away and off it went to its wild blue yonders.
So my question is, are butterflies more intelligent than actual flies? You wouldn't get a bluebottle doing that, in fact most flies just bounce off the pane even though there's a gap they could easily escape through. Anyone know about butterfly psychology?