Silver-washed Fritillary Female Aberration Ocellata

I had come back to look for the White Admiral in our local wood, which I had seen only fleetingly this summer, when I noticed this unusual butterfly - different from anything I had ever seen before. My thanks to Tim Melling for enlightening me on it being an exceedingly rare female Silver-washed Fritillary extreme Aberration Ocellata. To quote the Teddy Bear Picnic song,"If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise ...."

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