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Old 16-07-2007, 05:14 PM
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Re: pink butterfly??

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Originally Posted by Lonewolf View Post
Just to remind anyone, the thread is about an elusive, possibly foreign pink and black butterfly so please stop writing about cinnabar moths and 5-spot burnets, it was neither of them I can assure you. It was possibly some American species but my enthusiasm for searching through a load of those is nil.
well it was cinnibar or burnet for others and if we hadn't have been talking about them they would't have discovered this!

if your lepidopteran specimen was not one of these then yes it is foreign and you may have to leaf through foreign field guides or be happy with your mystery!
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