Worn

We are coming to the end of the season for Dark Green fritillaries. The name isn't very helpful. It only has a small area of dark green and that's on the underwings and distinguishes it from the High Brown Fritillary. We don't have the latter in Sussex so I don't need to distinguish them!  I prefer some of the older names like the 'Great Sylver Spotted Fritillary' from Buddle's Herbarium (1700) or the 'Queen of England Fritillary' from Haworth's Lepidoptera Britannica (1803).  Anyway, this one is slightly faded and worn on a blustery cool day.