
Gatekeeper ghost
This is a photo horribly gone wrong, but I'm sharing it anyway. This is a gate keeper butterfly that got scared away by pre-flash, after which during the actual flash the camera captured this, instead of the stationary butterfly I was intending to shoot. I'm sharing it as a lesson to avoid flash on butterflies when you can. Another thought I had is that in this position, it looks more like a caterpillar than a butterfly :)

The Gatekeeper, sometimes called the Hedge Brown, is found in West, South and Central Europe, Morocco, Turkey, Asia Minor and the Caucasus.
Similar species: Moths And Butterflies
By Ferdy Christant
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Uploaded Sep 4, 2014. Captured Jul 12, 2014 16:01 in Nistelrodeseweg 24, 5384 PN Heesch, The Netherlands.