pink butterfly??

[helen253]

i bow to your greater knowledge

it's a bit like me going onto a petrolheads website and saying "i saw a really nice blue car can anyone tell me what it was, it was shiny and i noticed a curvy bit on the side"

i saw a butterfly or moth, i discovered enough about it to sate my curiosity and now enough time has passed that i can't remember it as well as i could, i could kick myself for not having my camera on me and i didn't know enough technical terminology to have been able to describe it fully at the time. i became absolutely convinced that not only was i talking about a different butterfly/moth than everyone else on this thread but also that due to my limited ability to describe it and inability to provide a picture that nobody would be able to say "here it is". so i stopped posting on this thread. as i said before, the only picture that came close was the one i linked to and i'm happy enough with that to be satisfied that i've found out as much as i can about what i saw.

so it's fine, i'll always have my blue car/pink moth. i can live without knowing it's latin name, it was extraordinarily beautiful and like nothing i'd ever seen and that's enough for me.

[mh68]

As long as youre happy Helen thats all that matters.Myself and Gill were merely pointing out that the posture of the moth in the image you linked to gives the impression the wings are shorter than they actually are.

Mark H

[helen253]

i believe you, as i said, i bow to your greater knowledge, the one i saw was flying then landed briefly on my neighbours door, allowing me to study it for a little while before it flew away again, so that would fit with a partially resting wing position...i didn't have any further opportunity to study it feeding or resting so i have no idea what it's fully resting wing position would be.

[mh68]

Theres nothing great about my knowledge Helen I hope for your own curiosity you get to see it again, and maybe get a photo next time

Mark H

[helen253]

ah but i definitely think we can agree it's greater than mine!

i hope so too mark, however, if nothing else, it's awakened a childhood fascination with all things nature...a long spell in london had killed it off.

[Sal_B]

I think I have seen the infamous pink butterfly/moth - so amazing was it I subscribed to this site, to see if I could check it out on the forums (before I even saw last year's discussion).

I saw it on Tuesday 20 May near the beach in Bournemouth, Dorset. It was about 8am and very warm. The butterfly/moth was quite small (about 10p size when it's wings were shut and the most amazing deep pink/fuschia colour, with a black body - it was really beautiful (but does not look like the cinnabar? moth I have seen mentioned). There were two other people with me and they had seen nothing like it either. Sorry, I wasn't quick enough to get a photo, but I'm down in Weymouth at the weekend and hope to see it again (well, probably not the same one, but you know what I mean).

[Dan Salter]

Just when you think it is dead and buried this old chestnut rises up again!

[Purplepixii]

Originally Posted by Dan Salter

Just when you think it is dead and buried this old chestnut rises up again!

QFT! I have been subscribed to this thread since it started last year in the avid hope we had something new and wonderful fluttering around the countryside. Only last week I removed a load of link subscriptions and whaddya know - here this one is again!

Purplepixii
(still crossing her fingers for a new undiscovered flutterby!)

[Jez]

Did you ever watch the film Arthur when Guenevere had all her fingers bent and broken out of her sockets? Hope yours aint the same, really!

[Dan Salter]

Originally Posted by Jez

Did you ever watch the film Arthur when Guenevere had all her fingers bent and broken out of her sockets? Hope yours aint the same, really!

erm? thats a way random reply, whats does it relate to?