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Originally Posted by sb003  Thanks. i'm glad you said that. Whilst I thought I had seen a new exotic pink butterfly, I now know from the still pics I took that on both occasions it was a cinnebar. The thing is, it is VERY butterfly-like in flight, and EXTREMELY pink when in flight.
I do think that cinnebars must be doing very well at the moment, probably because their food source (what is it?) is prospering in this damp 'summer' |
Their food source is ragwort, that plant so many pull up, their caterpilllars are brilliant too in orange and black stripy colouration