Or just a variation?
Gatekeeper ab?
Re: Gatekeeper ab?
This kind of discolouration seems to occur quite regularly in Hedge Browns. At the extreme end of the scale you can get individuals like this one posted on the S. Wales Butterfly Conservation pages earlier today:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Butterf ... lesBranch/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Butterf ... lesBranch/
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Re: Gatekeeper ab?
We get a similar one regularly [every 7 years or so] at Hutchinsons Bank, but in ours is more white, & females seem to be rarer but do occur
Re: Gatekeeper ab?
Yep, that's the one, Neil. Word obviously spread quickly and I'm not surprised with a specimen like that.Neil Freeman wrote: ↑Tue Jul 21, 2020 9:09 pm...That looks like the one reported from Prees Heath yesterday David.