Mystery Clouded Yellow!
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 6:15 pm
Hello all,
Went on a walk to Powerstock Common (Dorset) with my Dad today, and had a lovely walk with tonnes of Small tortoiseshells, common blues and speckled woods. Also with two lovely but tatty Silver-washed fritillaries. My dad spotted this clouded yellow and I sneakily crept up on it while feeding on Fleabane but I notice it didn't have the usual clouded yellow markings on its underwing, shown in my field guide...is it an aberrant form or a different species such as the pale clouded yellow?
Thanks, Felix
Went on a walk to Powerstock Common (Dorset) with my Dad today, and had a lovely walk with tonnes of Small tortoiseshells, common blues and speckled woods. Also with two lovely but tatty Silver-washed fritillaries. My dad spotted this clouded yellow and I sneakily crept up on it while feeding on Fleabane but I notice it didn't have the usual clouded yellow markings on its underwing, shown in my field guide...is it an aberrant form or a different species such as the pale clouded yellow?
Thanks, Felix