Saturday, 6 August 2022

Venus Pool - Aberrant Meadow Brown ab. alba

Some nice Butterflies about today but this aberrant Meadow Brown was the most interesting? A nice spot by Dave Chapman as we searched in vain for a wayward Clouded Yellow...

To get your eye in, here's a normal Meadow Brown...




And here is ab. alba from today...



The usual tawny patch on the forewings is replaced by white, as seen here front and rear,


Sadly no open upperwing images were possible and eventually after skulking in the depths of the grass it flew into the seed crop and was lost to view...


Never mind, another aberration for the collection :-)