I visited the same site again today as part of the annual N. Yorkshire Duke monitoring programme and I was amazed to find another individual of the same aberration! A beautiful, freshly-emerged one too!
Duke of Burgundy aberration
Duke of Burgundy aberration
In 2021 I posted a previously unknown Duke aberration on here; it had no white on the antennae and wing fringes, and the underwing 'pearls' were almost black.
I visited the same site again today as part of the annual N. Yorkshire Duke monitoring programme and I was amazed to find another individual of the same aberration! A beautiful, freshly-emerged one too!
I visited the same site again today as part of the annual N. Yorkshire Duke monitoring programme and I was amazed to find another individual of the same aberration! A beautiful, freshly-emerged one too!
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Mark Tutton
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Re: Duke of Burgundy aberration
What a superb looking butterfly - great find!
Kind Regrds
Mark
Kind Regrds
Mark
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Re: Duke of Burgundy aberration
An amazing specimen!