Speckled wood Pararge aegeria Chocolate-brown with creamy wing patches, the increasingly-familiar speckled wood is well named, for it is typically a butterfly of dappled woodland shade.
The body is creamy white, with patches of pale colour (pink, yellow or orange) on the appendages, and a pink abdomen.
On physical examination we noted dry skin and oral candidiasis characterized by creamy white, curdlike patches on the tongue; this clinical picture was so typical that it did not need a culture to confirm the diagnosis of oral candidiasis.
It is similar to the bottlenose, but has creamy-white coloured patches.
But the steamed chocolate pudding, rich and creamy, smoothed away all the rough patches, and one felt almost ready to head back out into the world.
Look for the creamy strip above the eye and orange-red flank patches.
A visit less than halfway through the run found scabrous patches on the walls and piles of thick, creamy shards already littering the floor, in a benign parable of neglect and demolition.
Despite some dry patches in her lower and middle ranges, the essential warm, creamy Freni sound was still there, and her full-voiced top notes were gleaming.
Males and females can be distinguished by their plumage colour and patterns; males are much brighter than females, which lack the creamy yellow colouring on their heads and which possess muted orange cheek patches.
The paths pass through sun and shade, skirting black-earth beds flecked with lemony buds and spring's early risers -- patches of bright day lily and iris leaves, and hellebore blooming in creamy yellow and purple-black.
