aberrant speyeria photos

[Ron Gatrelle]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Fairbrother" <bogelfin at crocker.com>
To: <LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 11:57 AM
Subject: aberrant speyeria photos


> All,
>
> With the moderator's okay I have attached two photos I took on July 16,
> 2005 in Whately, MA,  Franklin Co., of what I guess is a Great Spangled
> Fritillary, Speyeria cybele.
> I'd be happy for any comments as to what is going on with that critter,
> hybrid of some sort or did the parents just have too much caffine the day
> before...
>
> Mark Fairbrother
> Montague, MA  01351
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Quite an aberration indeed of S. cybele.  You know photos like this drive
we collectors up the wall because they were not collected for posterity :-)
Not to mention that if collected, you might very likely have been able to
sell this "bug" to someone keen on natural aberrations for enough to buy
you a new super duper camera.  A nugget of gold left for the spiders, ants
and birds :-)

Ron Gatrelle



 
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