Strange Looking Meadow Brown

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mvpike
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Strange Looking Meadow Brown

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Came across this bizarre individual at Garston Wood, Dorset this morning.

Have never seen one with a full white border! ab or just a variation it looks quite attractive, at least for a Meadow Brown anyway . . . . . .

Mark.
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Re: Strange Looking Meadow Brown

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Wow! What an incredible aberration! Stunning. Never seen anything like it in books or real life...
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I agree ...............Superb abberation Mark ,never seen one even remotely like that ...........Great find !
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Re: Strange Looking Meadow Brown

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ab. margotransformis is a good fit. Stunning individual :mrgreen:
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Re: Strange Looking Meadow Brown

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That one's off the scale.

Amazing specimen. :shock:
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Re: Strange Looking Meadow Brown

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Thanks for all the replies. Good to know it is an ab . . . .

Around the time I photographed this one there were at least a dozen or so persons looking to the trees for Purple Emperors not too far away from me.

I was just content with boring Meadow Browns!! :D

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