pink butterfly??

[petereeles]

It could have been an aberration - such as the "coneyi" Cinnabar aberration as shown on the right at the following link (I gave up trying to add this to the WAB Gallery):

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/temp/Cinnabar.jpg

Cheers,

- Pete

[Jez]

We're all keen to find out what this could be! Some amusement has come of this i admit due to that were stumped and a barbie butterfly is the name i'm going to give it even when it comes to rest as i quite like this name!!! My newly adopted vernacular name me thinks. Some grace to the jest? I think you were honest myself to put it up as a thread & just to confirm that your not alone now this sounds really odd, ithink i once saw a bumble bee with a cyan tail???????????? All the Best Mate-Jez.

[Dan Salter]

Hoax?, Truth? Mis identification, Wind up?, Honesty....who knows anymore...

But im as much a butterfly lover as the rest and if there really is a "Barbie pink" flying around i want to be the first to finally get a photo of it !...hopefully perched on the ear of a puma? with a European eagle owl flying over head !...now that would be a shot!

[Jez]

With you in the shot also nibbling on the big cats ear. As you do

[Dan Salter]

Incidentally i do BELIEVE we have big cats ( especially in my area of Kent) and im also over the moon about the return of the European Eagle Owl...before i get lots of replies telling me that they do exist...i was merely having a joke...and ill be equally happy when barbie pinks are as common a sight as meadow browns...and who knows? Ken Krimsons?...Cindy creams?

[mayormaynot]

Originally Posted by christina

This Cinnabar was flying during the day and came to rest long enough for me to take several shots...as it flies it looks all pink and very beautiful too.....

Christina thats a lovely photo and if this one looks all pink as it flies then I'll go for it being a cinnebar moth - I'm just so disappointed that I haven't seen it again. Your picture certainly shows just the right colour pink. Thanks

[Minnie]

I love the name 'Barbie Pink' - maybe it could be a new species? DEFINETLY bright pink, not red, I am still hopeful of seeing it again!!!

[Dan Salter]

i dont know how anyone can call the cinnebar above the "right colour pink?"!! thats RED all day long...and not the pink of barbie that i remember? ( i have lots of girls cousins)

[christina]

Glad to have helped Mayormaynot. I will just add that when I first saw the Cinnebar flying it looked all over barbie pink as the sun was shining on it but when it settled I could see the black on the wings and the not so "barbie pink", more of a very dark pink.

[Lonewolf]

Well, I don't wear any spectacles, nor was I inebriated that particular day when it paid a fleeting visit to my urban garden. In fact, I was in a very good mood and just doing a spot of gardening so I stand by what I saw, an unusual pink and black butterfly. Who knows, maybe I will see it again some day or it may present itself before your own eyes and if you do see it, say 'hello' for me. Thanks...